Lynne Brindley

Lynne Brindley is the Chief Executive of the British Library, a post she took up on 1st July 2000. She was previously Pro-Vice-Chancellor for
Communications and IT and University Librarian at the University of Leeds, and before that Librarian & Director of Information Services at
the London School of Economics. She has held previous positions as a Principal Consultant at KPMG, at Aston University, and a variety of
posts at the British Library. She was a member of the Follett Review Committee and chaired the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib). More recently she has been a member of the Library & Information Commission, the ESRC's Research Resources Board. She holds visiting professorships at the University of Leeds and the Metropolitan University of Leeds.