Janet Legrand OBE KC (Hon)
President of Goodenough College and Chair of the Board of Trustees
Janet Legrand serves as the President of Goodenough College and Chair of the Board of Trustees. She is the former Senior Partner and Global Co-Chair of DLA Piper, where she combined senior leadership roles with a successful international disputes practice, latterly representing Governments. In 2018, she was appointed Queen’s Counsel Honoris Causa for her contribution to the legal profession. An Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, she is currently Chair of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), a Board member of Advance HE and a member of the advisory panel of IntoUniversity.
Janet has significant governance experience in higher education, in particular from prior roles as Senior Lay Member of Court at the University of Edinburgh, Deputy Chair of Council at City University of London and on the Audit Committee at the University of Cambridge. She was also Deputy Chair of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission and on the board of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.
A former Chair of The Children’s Society, in 2023, she was awarded an OBE for services to young people.