Julia Black

Julia Black
CBE FBA
Strategic Director for Innovation, London School of Economics and Political Science
In office
2017
Personal details
Born (1967-01-29) 29 January 1967 (age 57)
NationalityBritish
ResidenceUnited Kingdom
Alma mater
AwardsHonorary Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford
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Julia Mary Black CBE FBA (born 29 January 1967) is the strategic director of innovation and a professor of law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).[1] She was the interim director of the LSE,[2] a post she held from September 2016 until September 2017, at which time Minouche Shafik took over the directorship.[3] She is the president of the British Academy, the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences, and became the academy's second female president in July 2021 for a four-year term.[4]

In September 2024, she will become the tenth Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford.

  1. ^ LSE Staff Webpage, London School of Economics. Accessed October 14, 2016
  2. ^ LSE webpage - Introduction to the Directorate, London School of Economics. Accessed October 14, 2016
  3. ^ LSE webpage - LSE appoints Deputy Governor of Bank of England as new Director, London School of Economics. Accessed October 14, 2016
  4. ^ ""The 2020s will be the decade of the humanities and social sciences", says new British Academy President". The British Academy. Retrieved 24 July 2020.