Education
Born in London, Sarah Hutchison (as she then was) was educated at Street Paul"s Girls" School, London, before winning an exhibition to read History at Newnham College, Cambridge.
Born in London, Sarah Hutchison (as she then was) was educated at Street Paul"s Girls" School, London, before winning an exhibition to read History at Newnham College, Cambridge.
She was President of Hughes Hall, a college of the University of Cambridge, from 2006 to 2014. From Cambridge she entered Her Majesty Diplomatic Service. Her work as a diplomat took her to Israel, Washington District of Columbia, Senegal, Macedonia and Croatia.
From 1995 she developed a major interest in the transition process in the countries of central and eastern Europe, working for the Know How Fund and as deputy head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Central European department.
From 2000 to 2003 she was Her Majesty Ambassador in Estonia. In 2006 Sarah Squire was elected as the 14th President of Hughes Hall, Cambridge, a position she held until 2014.
In this period she also served as Deputy Vice Chancellor, Deputy Chairman of the Cambridge Alumni Advisory Board, Syndic of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Chair of Fitzwilliam Enterprises, and Chair of the Centre for Research. In 2010 she chaired the University"s Trademark and Licensing working group.
She was also deputy Chairman of the Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust.
She served as a Magistrate on the Cambridge Bench from 1992-2009. Sarah Squire is married to William Squire, who was British Ambassador to Senegal (1979–1982) and to Israel (1984–1988), the first Director of Development of Cambridge Universit, and Chairmand and Director (Europe) of Grenzbach Glier.
Outside the University she was connected with University College London as a member of the Advisory Board of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and from 2004-2006 was an international trustee of the New Eurasia Foundation. She has been Chairman of the Kurt Hahn Trust, Chair of Cambridge VSO and a board member of the Cambridge Humanitarian Centre. She is currently joint Chair of Cambridge for Europe, a grass roots organisation campaigning in Cambridge and its region for an "in" vote in the European Union referendum.
A member of Chapter and Canon of Ely Cathedral.
And a trustee of United Learning and the United Church Schools Trust.