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Dawn airey biography

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Girtonians recognised in 2024 King's Birthday Honours list

Lucy-Marie Hagues (Sharpe) (1996, Engineering), Chief Executive Officer, Capital One UK. For services to Education and Skills.

Lucy-Marie commented:

“I am thrilled and incredibly proud to have been awarded an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours List. 

This award is testament to the great work done by the fabulous team I lead at Capital One UK and the partners we work with - especially the brilliant team at National Numeracy. 

As the head of a major, data-led UK company, I see every day the importance of numeracy and data-literacy in our workforce. I have long been an advocate of encouraging a more positive relationship with numbers and data, especially amongst those groups who typically think maths “isn’t for them”.  

In particular, I’m dedicated to making sure that girls, women, and those who didn’t grow up in number-confident households, feel able to challenge themselves and reject the myth that maths ability belongs only to the lucky few.”

Lucy-Marie Hagues is CEO of Capital One UK and Head

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Dawn Airey

British media company executive (born 1960)

Dawn Elizabeth AireyCBE (born 15 November 1960) is a British media executive, sports administrator and independent company director.

She is the Chancellor of Edge Hill University, and chairs the BarclaysFA Women's Super League and Championship board, the National Youth Theatre and the educational platform Digital Theatre+. Airey is a non-executive director of Channel 4, Getty Images, Grosvenor Estates and Blackbird.

She is best known for her tenure between 1996 and 2002 at Channel 5, as the inaugural Director of Programmes, and subsequently Chief Executive, and has held senior positions at ITV plc, Sky UK, Yahoo! and Getty Images.

Early life

Airey was born in Preston, Lancashire.[1] She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, where she studied geography.[2]

Career

Airey began her career as a management trainee[2] at Central Independent Television in 1985. In 1989 she was promoted to the position of Director of Programme Planning and was appointed to the Central br

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The LVW keynote speaker has received recognition for a lifetime of incredible work 

BY ELLA GAUCI, IMAGE BY EMMA CATTELL

Dawn Airey, Chair of Trustees of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, has been awarded a CBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for her services to theatre and charity. At Lesbian Visibility Week 2024, Dawn gave a keynote speech about the importance of representation and visibility in the workplace. She also was awarded a Lifetime Achievement honour at the European Diversity Awards 2022. 

During her time as the Chair of Trustees of the National Youth Theatre, Dawn has seen the £4m RIBA award-winning redevelopment of the NYT’s north London home and new partnerships with Netflix, Digital Theatre, English Heritage and TikTok. 

Dawn told DIVA: “I am thrilled to receive this honour, especially as it is for services to theatre, and charity, where I am committed to elevating young people’s talent, on and off the stage. I will use this honour to continue championing LGBTQIA stories and performances in the theatre. It is imperat

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