Lynne Brindley

Chief Executive, British Library

Lynne Brindley has been Chief Executive of the British Library since July 2001. She was previously Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Communications and IT and University Librarian at University of Leeds, and before that Librarian & Director of Information Services at the London School of Economics. She has been Principal Consultant at KPMG, Director of Library and IT Services and Pro-Vice Chancellor at Aston University and held a variety of posts at the British Library.

More recently she has been a member of the Library & Information Commission, the ESRC's Research Resources Board, and she is a trustee of the Thackeray Medical Museum in Leeds. She holds visiting professorships at theUniversity of Leeds and at the Metropolitan University of Leeds.