Anne Mary Lonsdale CBE (née Menzies, first married name Griffin, born 16 February 1941) is a British sinologist and was the third President of New Hall, Cambridge.
[1] Lonsdale was chairman of the Board of Camfed International (a Non-governmental organization focused on education and job opportunities for girls in Sub-Saharan Africa), and is now chairman and honorary secretary of the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics, a Trustee of the European Humanities University in Vilnius and of the Open Society Foundation.
Lonsdale travelled and worked extensively in America, Europe, Asia and Africa, and was active for many years in both European and Commonwealth university organisations.
Outside the university, she was a Trustee of the British Association for Central and Eastern Europe, the Inter-University Foundation and the Moscow School of Social & Economic Sciences.
[5] She is Officier des Palmes Academiques (France) and Cavaliere del’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.