Anne Lonsdale, a long-standing member of the EHU Governing Board since 2008, served as Acting Chair of the Governing Board in 2016.
Anne Lonsdale is a distinguished British sinologist and higher education expert. She has served as the President of the New Hall (now Murray Edwards College), University of Cambridge, in 1996-2008, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1998-2003, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor until 2008.
Previously, Mrs. Lonsdale was Secretary-General of the Central European University and joined the team creating Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, where she was appointed Founding Provost in 2010-2012 and returned to that position in 2015. Mrs. Lonsdale is also a long-standing member of the Council of CARA (Council for At-Risk Academics).
For her service to the advancement of higher education, in 2004 Anne Lonsdale was awarded as Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.