Education
University of Sheffield.
University of Sheffield.
She was the first woman to hold the post and at the time of her departure had held the chief role longer than any predecessor in more than a century. She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2008. In 2010, Lawrence was included by the Cameron government as one of the civil servants on the exceptionally high salaried list Prime Minister David Cameron released this list of civil servants earning more than the Prime Minister in a move to improve government transparency and accountability.
Lawrence at just under £200,000 was one of the 174 named individuals.
In 2011, the list was updated, with Lawrence"s approximate salary unchanged. Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office Minister, hailed the publication of the figures which followed his own earlier disclosure of £3.75bn in central government cuts of "inefficiencies and unjustifiable costs", £10m of which had been salary related.
As part of the government"s transparency reforms, the Cabinet Office released "Transparency Data Senior Officials "High Earners" Salaries" in December 2014 with status at March 2014 with Lawrence again included in the list. In 2011, the United Nations elected Lawrence to serve as the inaugural Company-Chair of its Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (United Nations-GGIM).
As of 2014, her co-chairs are Li Pengde and Eduardo Sojo.
In April 2014, Lawrence stepped down as Director-General and Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey, temporarily transitioning into the role of Secretary General of Ordnance Survey International through the rest of 2014.