Chair, National Audit Office

Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE is the chair of the National Audit Office. Her role is to provide leadership and direction to the NAO board, setting its agenda, and leading the non-executive members in providing support to the NAO’s executive management and the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Dame Fiona was Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 2012-2021. She came to the College from the National Trust, of which she had been Director-General since 2001. She was previously Director of the Women’s Unit in the Cabinet Office, Director of the Council for the Protection of Rural England (now Campaign to Protect Rural England) and Secretary to the Council for National Parks.

Dame Fiona was a Non-Executive Director of the BBC and in 2012 became the Senior Independent Director of the Executive Board. She is also a trustee of the Grosvenor Estate, Chair of Governors at the Royal Agricultural University and Chair of the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England. She was appointed CBE for services to the environment and conservation in 1998, and DBE in 2008. She studied for a BA (Hons) in Geography and Land Economy here at Cambridge, and stayed on to do an MPhil in Land Economy.