Liliana Leah Archibald

Liliana Leah Archibald ( Kalmanowsky, later Barou; 25 May 1928 – 1 June 2014) was an English insurance broker for Lloyd's of London. She began her career as an economics lecturer at the University of Otago and translated books on the history of Russia. Archibald began her finance career in 1955 with her stepfather's firm, Moscow Narodny Bank, and became Lloyd's first accredited women insurance broker in 1973. She worked to harmonize the EEC's member states differing export credit systems from Brussels as chief of the Division for Credit Insurance and Export Credit of the European Commission. Archibald also served on several government bodies and committees, and was Lloyd's EEC adviser.

Biography Early life Archibald was born to Russian Jewish immigrants Emanuel Eshuah Kalmanowsky and his wife, Sophie ( Gissen), at the Welbeck Hospital in Marylebone, London on 25 May 1928. Her father was a civil engineer and company director who abandoned the family soon after she was born. Archibald had an older brother, Alexander. Her mother later married family friend Noah Barou, the head of London-based Moscow Narodny Bank, and Liliana took on his surname. In 1935, she began to be taught at Kingsley Lodge School for Girls in Belsize Park, which was evacuated to Tintagel, Cornwall when the Second World War broke out in 1935, remaining there until the war ended.

Personal life From 19 October 1951 to 1965, she was married to the economist George Christopher Archibald. The union was childless. Archibald was appointed the OBE.