Pippa Rogerson

Philippa Jane Rogerson is a British solicitor and academic. She was the first woman to be Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She is Professor of Private International Law at the University of Cambridge, where her research covers the conflict of laws and company law. In 2024 Rogerson announced her intention to retire as master and return to teaching and research.

Life Philippa Jane Rogerson is a British solicitor and academic who was Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from October 2018 to September 2025. She is Professor of Private International Law at the University of Cambridge, where her research covers the conflict of laws and company law. In 2017, she was a member of the university's council. and went on to be admitted as a solicitor in 1986, and was awarded a PhD in 1990 for a thesis titled Intangible property in the conflict of laws.

In May 2017, the college announced that Rogerson had been elected the next master of Gonville and Caius, succeeding chemist Sir Alan Fersht when he retired in September 2018. She is the college's forty-third master, and first female master, and was installed as such on 1 October 2018.

She was a governor of Oundle School for ten years. She has five children.

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