Shirley Pearce

Dame Shirley Anne Pearce DBE (born February 1954) is a British academic and psychologist.

Born on 19 February 1954, Shirley Pearce was educated at Norwich High School for Girls,[4] before studying psychology, physiology, and philosophy at St Anne's College,[5] Oxford University, gaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1975.

[6] While working at University College London, she studied part-time as a postgraduate student, obtaining her PhD degree in Psychology in 1986.

During this time she was also a Non-executive director of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority and deputy chair of the Healthcare Commission.

[citation needed] Her appointment as Chair of Court and Council at LSE was announced in November 2016 and she arrived in January 2017.