AMELIA CHILCOTT FAWCETT is the Chairman of Guardian Media Group
plc in London. She also is a Non-Executive Director of State
Street Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts, where she chairs the
Risk and Capital Committee.
Until July this year, Amelia was Non-Executive Chairman of
Pensions First, a financial services and systems solutions
business, based in London, which she helped set up. From 1987
- 2007 she worked for Morgan Stanley, first as an executive and
then in a non-executive role. She started her career at the US law
firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, first in New York then in
Paris. She joined Morgan Stanley in London in 1987, was
appointed Vice President in 1990, an Executive Director in 1992 and
Managing Director and the Chief Administrative Officer for the
Firm's European operations in 1996. In 2002 she was appointed
Vice Chairman reporting to the Chairman. As Vice Chairman and
Chief Operating Officer, she was a member of the European
Management Committee and the Boards of Directors of the Firm's
major European operating companies. She stepped down from her
executive role in October 2006 and was a Senior Advisor to the Firm
until April 2007.
Amelia is Deputy Chairman of the National Portrait Gallery (and
Chairman of the Gallery's Development Board), a Governor of London
Business School, and, until recently, a member of the Court of the
Bank of England (and Chairman of the Bank's Audit Committee).
Amelia was appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the
2010 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to the financial
services industry, in addition to being awarded the CBE in 2002,
also for services to the financial industry. She received the
Prince of Wales' Ambassador Award in 2004 and an honorary degree
from the American University in London (Richmond) in 2006.
Amelia, a British and American citizen, was born in Boston,
Massachusetts, USA in 1956. She has a degree in History from
Wellesley (1978) and a law degree from the University of Virginia
(1983). She was admitted to the New York Bar in 1984.
Her interests include fly fishing, sailing, hill-walking and
history, and she sailed across the Atlantic in 2006 to raise
£250,000 for Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
