Bridget Edminson has accepted appointment as Director of Legal and Regulatory Services, with effect from 1 September 2022.<\/p>\n
Reporting to the College Secretary and General Counsel, in this role Bridget will lead the team which advises on all legal matters for the College including those covering commercial contracts, corporate and finance, dispute resolution, intellectual property, information technology, charity, and employment law as well as law and regulation specific to the Higher Education sector.<\/p>\n
Bridget will join the College from the University of Sussex, where she is currently General Counsel and Director of Governance and Compliance. In this role she has established a central legal function and has assumed responsibility for a range of institutional compliance functions. She also led the university\u2019s COVID-19 response, which received two Higher Education Business Continuity awards, and the university\u2019s response to the UUK Guidelines on Security-related Risks in Internationalisation.<\/p>\n
Prior to joining the University of Sussex, Bridget spent 18 years in the Government Legal Service. She worked at the UK Ministry of Defence for 14 years, most recently as Head of the General Law Team. Bridget completed her bachelor\u2019s degree at LSE, followed by an MA at King\u2019s College London, and her Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law; she was called to the Bar in 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bridget Edminson has accepted appointment as Director of Legal and Regulatory Services, with effect from 1 September 2022. Reporting to the College Secretary and General Counsel, in this role Bridget will lead the team which advises on all legal matters for the College including those covering commercial contracts, corporate and finance, dispute resolution, intellectual property, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[295158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-services"],"yoast_head":"\n