Maureen MacGlashan

Maureen Elizabeth MacGlashan, CMG was Assistant Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law from 1986–1990 and is now a Fellow of the Centre.

From 1963 to 1998, she was a member of the British Diplomatic Service. She served in, among other places, such hot spots as Israel, Eastern Europe, and Northern Ireland. Her final Diplomatic position was as British Ambassador to the Holy See (1995–1998), the first woman to fill that post. She was editor of The Indexer, the international journal of indexing, from 2004 to 2018.

MacGlashan studied at Girton College, Cambridge.