 Born and educated in New Zealand, Judith Mayhew graduated LLM from the University of Otago, where she lectured before moving to the UK as a lecturer in law at King's College London, where she set up and became director of the Anglo-French Law Degree (Sorbonne), the first joint degree in Europe.In 1989, she entered private practice as an employment lawyer, rising to become special adviser to the chairman at Clifford Chance, the world's largest law firm, before resigning to concentrate on her other roles.In 2006 she was appointed to the board of directors of Merrill Lynch.