Mary Keegan

Dame Elizabeth Mary Keegan, DBE (born 1953) is a retired accountant and civil servant.

Born in 1953, she attended Brentwood County High School and Somerville College, Oxford, before working at Price Waterhouse from 1977;[1] she was appointed their first female audit partner in 1985 and in 1994 became the firm's director of professional standards for Europe.[2]

In 2001, she left to chair the Accounting Standards Board, serving until 2004.[1] That year, she was appointed Head of the Government Finance Profession. [3]

Honours/Awards

She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2007 Birthday Honours and stepped down in 2008.[3][4] She was awarded the Institute of Chartered Accountants' Award for Outstanding Achievement in 2014, and is an honorary fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Dame Mary Keegan", Somerville College, Oxford. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  2. ^ "The Woman Who Transformed Accountancy in Government", PublicSectorExecutive.com. 15 April 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Keegan, Dame (Elizabeth) Mary", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2021). Retrieved 10 February 2022.(subscription required)
  4. ^ The London Gazette, 16 June 2007 (supplement, issue 58358), p. 7.


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