Sarah Springman

Dame Sarah Marcella Springman DBE FREng (born 26 December 1956) is a British-Swiss triathlete, civil engineer, and academic.

She is a former rector of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and currently Principal of St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford.

She was the first female research fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, before becoming a university lecturer in 1990.

[4] Springman is an advocate for access for women to STEM / MINT studies and engages in many events and campaigns to support this.

[11] In March 2021, it was announced that Springman would be the next Principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in succession to Sir Gordon Duff.

On 18 August 2016, she was chosen as a presentation official at the Olympic triathlon medal ceremony, at which brothers Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee received gold and silver medals for Team GB in Rio de Janeiro.