Julia Black was the interim director of the LSE, a post she held from September 2016 until September 2017, at which time Minouche Shafik took over the directorship.
13 Facts About Julia Black
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Julia Black 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.
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Julia Black graduated with a first-class undergraduate degree in jurisprudence from the University of Oxford in 1988.
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Julia Black is strategic director of innovation, professor of law at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the general editor of the Modern Law Review.
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Julia Black was the LSE's pro director for research from 2014 to 2019 and interim director of the LSE from 2016 to 2017.
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Julia Black is a research associate of the LSE's Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation and has been actively involved with developing the LSE's research collaborations with STEM disciplines, particularly around health and data science.
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Julia Black has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2015 and the president-elect since 2020.
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Julia Black became only the second female president in the academy's 118-year history, after taking up the role in July 2021 for a four-year term and becoming the 31st president, when she succeeded the historian Professor Sir David Cannadine.
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Julia Black has received grants from the Economic and Social Research Council and the Social Science Research Council and was the recipient of the 2016 Standing Group Award for Regulatory Studies Development.
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Julia Black has written extensively on regulatory issues in a number of areas, including financial regulation and was a part of a high-level steering group of experts working on a review of the Research Excellence Framework chaired by former president of the British Academy and World Bank Chief Economist, Lord Nicholas Stern.
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Outside of academia, Julia Black has had a number of non-executive and advisory roles for many organisations, including the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the UK National Audit Office, the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the Financial Services Authority, and the Law Commission.
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Julia Black has been a senior independent member of UK Research and Innovation, which is responsible for research and innovation funding in the UK, since 2017 and is a member of the Council of Science and Technology, which advises the prime minister on science and technology policy issues across government, and recently joined the board of governors of the Courtauld Institute of Art.
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In recognition of her work, Julia Black was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to the study of law and regulation.