Mary Keegan
Doctor of Business Administration (HonDBA)
Year conferred: 2005
Dame Mary Keegan retired in 2008 from her role as Head of the Government Finance Profession, based at HM Treasury. She was a Managing Director there, responsible for a programme of work to improve financial management in Whitehall; she also served as Finance Director of HM Treasury.
Until 2004, Mary was Chairman of the Accounting Standards Board and, before that, head of the Global Corporate Reporting Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers, advising on corporate governance and regulation across the world including International Financial Reporting Standards.
A founder member of the International Accountancy Standards' Standing Interpretations Committee and of the International Forum on Accountancy Development, she was also vice-president of the Federation des Experts Comptables Europeans. A frequent commentator on corporate governance and reporting transparency, she is co-author of The Value Reporting Revolution - Moving Beyond the Earning Game.
Mary now lives in Devon and, amongst other activities, is a non-executive Director of the National Audit office member of the Financial Reporting Review Panel and a Governor of University College, Falmouth. She is also a member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society.
