Dame Lynne J Brindley, DBE
Chief Executive
Appointed: July 2000
Dame Lynne Brindley has been the Chief Executive of the British Library since July 2000. She has led a major strategic development and modernisation programme to ensure that the British Library remains relevant, innovative and accessible in the 21st century.
Lynne came to the British Library from the University of Leeds where she was Pro-Vice-Chancellor. Previously she was a senior consultant with KPMG and has held leadership positions in information technology and knowledge management at Aston University and at the London School of Economics.
She is a council member of the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and is on the board of the Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network. Lynne chaired the national Online Learning Taskforce set up by HEFCE and was a member of the UK’s Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP). She is a member of the Council of City University and on the Court of the Goldmsiths’ Company. She is active in high level international, European and national bodies concerned with media and information society initiatives, digital infrastructure and libraries, and cultural and public sector leadership.
Lynne was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours List 2008.
Lynne enjoys music and is a competent pianist and enjoys buying modern art, particularly abstract landscapes and ceramics with Cornish influences; she likes to walk in the Yorkshire Dales and on the Cornish coastal footpath.
