St Anne’s reputation, and its contribution to wider society, is not defined simply by those who currently study or work here - it is defined, too, by those who have passed through the College and achieved success in their chosen walk of life.

On this page we list just a few of the very many St Anne’s female and male alumnae whose professional activities - whether in government, education, business and finance, writing, science, charities, the law, or the arts - are making a very real contribution to public and corporate life around the world.

• Alex von Behr (1979) is Chief Customer Officer, Unilever. He was previously President and Chief Executive of Coca-Cola India.
• Alice Perkins (1968) worked in the Cabinet Office, Treasury, and Departments of Health and Social Security in policy making, operational and resource management roles. She has served as a nonexecutive Director on the Boards of The Littlewoods Organisation, BAA and Taylor Nelson Sofres, where she was also Chair of the Remuneration Committee. She is currently one of three external members of Oxford University Council (the University’s Governing Body) and a member of the Said Business School’s Business Advisory Council.
• Amanda Pritchard (1994), health professional, is Deputy Chief Executive of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
• Ann Lonsdale (Menzies, 1958), academic and university administrator, was President of New Hall, Cambridge, 1996–2008, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor in the University of Cambridge 2000–2008. In 2004 Lonsdale was awarded the CBE for services to Higher Education.
• Anuradha Vittachi (1966) co-founded the One World Network, an Internet portal focusing on human rights and sustainable development, bringing together over 1,600 partner NGO websites worldwide.  Currently Anuradha is Director Emerita of OneWorld’s governing body, Executive Director of OneWorld UK, and instigator of the OneClimate Initiative.
• Barbara Monroe (Jones, 1970) is Chief Executive of St Christopher’s Hospice in London. She is also Director of the Candle children's bereavement project and was Chair of the national Childhood Bereavement Network for 8 years.
• Belinda Bucknall (1969), lawyer, is a Queen’s Counsel specialising in international commercial and shipping law.
• Ben McIldowie (1999), musician, is otherwise known as Mr Hudson and has achieved top 10 hits with his singles Supernova and White Lies.
• Bernadette Knox (1973), advertising executive, is Global Planning Director for J Walter Thompson.
• Carey Oppenheim (1979): Co-director at the Institute for Public Policy Research (until 2010) and Senior Policy Advisor at No.10 Downing Street.
• Charles Inge (1980), advertising executive, is a Founding Partner and Creative Director of advertising agency CHI&Partners.
• Charlotte Avery (1988), teacher, is Headmistress of St Mary’s School, Cambridge.
• Charlotte Moore (1978), author, is now a full-time writer and has published several novels including a children's biography of Florence Nightingale, George and Sam (2005), Grandmother's Footsteps (2010) and Hancox: A House and a Family (2011).
• Chris Howard (1991), academic, is President of Hampton-Sydney College, Virginia.
• Cynthia Hall (Davis, 1971), teacher, is Headmistress of Wycombe Abbey.
• Damien Smith (1992), journalist, is editor of Motor Sport Magazine and was previously editor-in-chief of Autosport magazine.
• Danny Alexander (1990), politician, is Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey. Following the General Election in 2010, he was initially appointed Secretary of State for Scotland and after the resignation of David Laws, he was promoted to become Chief Secretary to the Treasury.  
• David Roberts (1983), journalist, is Group Editor at John Brown Citrus Publishing, and previously worked as deputy editor of the FT magazine and commissioning editor of Radio Times.
• Diana Wynne Jones (1953), writer, whose award-winning children’s books include Charmed Life (1977), Howl's Moving Castle (1986) and Dark Lord of Derkholm (1998), twice runner-up for the Carnegie Medal.
• Edwina Currie (Cohen, 1965), broadcaster and former politician, was Conservative Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire (1983-97), and is author of books including A Parliamentary Affair (1994) and She's Leaving Home (1997).
• Frances Stonor Saunders (1984), journalist and historian, is former arts editor for the New Statesman, and author of books including Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural Cold War (1999), Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman (2004) and The Woman Who Shot Mussolini (2010).
• Frances Cairncross (1962), journalist and academic, who has written for The Guardian and The Economist, and is author of two books including The Death of Distance (2001) and The Company of the Future (2002). She has been Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, since 2004.
• Ged Parton (1984), advertising executive, is CEO Global Clients, Practices and Capabilities for Synovate.
• Gill Tishler (1976) was Chief Executive  of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) from 1993 to 2007, a leading charity working with the most disadvantaged young women in England and Wales. She is currently Director of the Citizens Advice Bureau in Oxford.
• Gillian Beer (Thomas, 1954), academic and literary critic, whose books include Darwin's Plots (1983) and Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground (1996). She was President of Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1994-2001.
• Gillian Reynolds (Morton, 1954), journalist and broadcaster, who has worked as Radio Critic for the Guardian and, currently, for the Daily Telegraph, as well as Programme Controller of Radio City, Liverpool. She is a Fellow of both the Radio Academy and the Royal Television Society, a Trustee of the National Media Museum and an Honorary Fellow of the College.
• Hadley Freeman (1996), journalist, is a Guardian columnist and features writer, as well as a contributing editor to Vogue.
• Harriet Spicer (1969), publisher, was co-founder and a former chief executive of Virago Press, publisher of women’s literature, and former Chair of the National Lottery Commission and also of The Friendly Almshouses, Brixton. Harriet Spicer co-runs Working Edge Coaching and Mentoring and is a governor of the London School of Economics.
• Heather Swindells (1968), lawyer, is a Queen’s Counsel specialising in family law, and a Circuit Judge.
• Helen Fielding (1976), writer, is author of Bridget Jones’s Diary (1996) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999), as well as Olivia Joules and The Overactive Imagination (2004).
• Helen Fraser (1967), publisher, was Managing Director of Penguin UK until retirement at the end of 2009.
• Helen Weir (Luing, 1980), banker, was Group Executive Director - UK Retail Banking, at Lloyds Banking Group PLC. She is one of the few senior female executives in the FTSE100 group of companies.
• Hilary Macaulay (1990), teacher, is Principal of West London Academy. Under the leadership of Hilary, the Academy has been awarded the national Investor in People Award, the Cabinet Office Charter Mark, The Inclusion Quality Mark, Sports Mark, Active Mark, Partnership Mark and the national Healthy Schools Award.
• Ian Wisniewski (1980), writer and journalist, is one of the country's foremost spirits experts, and author of Classic Tequila, Classic Vodka, Classic Malt Whisky, Party Cocktails, Party Drinks, The Classic Whisky Handbook.
• Irene Dorner (1973), banker, is Chief Executive of HSBC Malaysia.
• Jackie Ashley (1974), journalist and broadcaster, is a former political editor of the New Statesman who has written for The Guardian since 2002, and is a presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Week in Westminster.
• Jacky Rowland (1983), journalist, is a former BBC Foreign Affairs correspondent, best known for her coverage of the Balkans. She is now correspondent for Al Jazeera International news channel, based in Jerusalem.
• Jana Bennett (1974), television executive, is President Worldwide Networks and Global iPlayer, responsible for BBC Worldwide's portfolio of channels and the development and roll out of the commercial global iPlayer. She was previously Director of BBC Vision, with overall creative and leadership responsibility for BBC One, BBC Two, the digital channels BBC Three and BBC Four.
• Jancis Robinson (1968), wine writer and journalist, the first person outside the wine trade to become a Master of Wine in 1984, and editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine, now in its 3rd edition (2006). In 2003 she was awarded an OBE by Her Majesty the Queen, on whose cellar she now advises.
• Janet Hull (1973) is Director of Marketing and Reputation Management for the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising.
• Jean Southworth (1947), lawyer, was a Queen’s Counsel, and was Recorder of the Crown Court, 1973-93. She was elected an Honorary Fellow in 2004.
• Jenny Uglow (Crowther, 1966), historian, editor and critic, is Editorial Director of Chatto & Windus, part of Random House.  Her books include the Whitbread Prize-shortlisted biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell (1992) and Hogarth (1997), and The Lunar Men (2002), winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography.
• Jeremy Grundy (1985), teacher, is Headmaster of Akeley Wood School, Buckingham.
• Jill Milner (Land, 1976), teacher, is Headmistress of Walthamstow Hall, Sevenoaks.
• Jill Paton Walsh (Bliss, 1955), writer, whose children’s books include the Whitbread Prize-winning The Emperor's Winding Sheet (1974), and whose adult novels include the Booker Prize-shortlisted Knowledge of Angels (1994) and her completion of Thrones, Dominations (1998), an unfinished work by Dorothy L Sayers.
• Jo Delahunty (1982), lawyer, is a Queen’s Counsel specialising in care proceedings and child protection issues. She was recommended as a Leading Silk in Chambers and Partners 2011.
• Judith Judd (Berry, 1968), journalist, is a former editor of The Times Education Supplement. She was also education correspondent of the Observer, education correspondent of the Independent on Sunday and education editor of the Independent.
• Judy Mallaber (1969), politician, was Labour Member of Parliament for Amber Valley from 1997 to 2010.
• Julian Gallant (1984), musician, has performed all over the world and with major orchestras, and is Chief Conductor of the Russian Chamber Orchestra of London. He has been Director of Pushkin House and Chief Executive of the Pushkin House Trust since the organisation reestablished itself in 2006 and was a co-founder of the Oxford Philomusica.
• Juliet Barker (Bateson, 1977), biographer and historian, is author of a number of well-regarded works on the Brontës, William Wordsworth, Medieval tournaments, and the Battle of Agincourt.
• Karen Armstrong (1967), writer, whose books on religion include Through the Narrow Gate (1982) and The Spiral Staircase (2004), The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions (2006) and Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life (2010). Awarded the $100,000 TED Prize in February 2008, she called for drawing up a Charter for Compassion in order to foster global understanding and a peaceful world. It was unveiled in November 2009.
• Kay Fitzherbert (Norris, 1955), social worker, founded the National Pyramid Trust for Children (now called Pyramid), with the aim of developing preventive work with vulnerable children.
• Libby Purves (1968), journalist and broadcaster, the first female presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, presenter of Radio 4’s Midweek, commentator and critic for The Times, whose novels include Mother Country (2002), Love Songs and Lies (2007) and Shadow Child (2009).
• Lindsay Northover (Granshaw, 1973), politician, Liberal Democrat peer, Government Whip and Government Spokesperson for health, justice, law officers, Wales, equalities and women's issues, Advocate General for Scotland, and international development.
• Louise Berridge (Newsome, 1979), writer and television producer, who wrote scripts for BBC One drama serial EastEnders, and was the programme’s executive producer, 2002-04. Her credits also include Messiah and an adaptation of Wuthering Heights.  Her bestselling debut novel Honour and the Sword was published in April 2010.
• Lynn Barber (1963), author and journalist, famed for her interviews which currently appear in The Sunday Times. She has also written for The Observer, the Sunday Express, Independent on Sunday, Vanity Fair, and the Daily Telegraph. Her memoir An Education (2009) was adapted as a film by Nick Hornby.
• Maria Aitken (1963), actress, writer and director, whose credits include A Fish Called Wanda and The 39 Steps.
• Maria Willetts (Ferreras, 1974), banker, who in 1993 having built up the Chase Manhattan Bank’s global venture capital and merchant banking business became the bank's first female Executive Vice President.
• Mark Bostridge (1979), biographer and critic, author of Vera Brittain: A Life (1995), Lives For Sale (2004), an anthology of biographers' tales and Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend (2008) which was awarded the 2009 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and named as a Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2008.
• Mark Gallagher (1988) was Director of Group Corporate Affairs, ITV from 2007 to 2009. In 2010, he founded Pagefield, an independent communications consultancy.
• Martha Kearney (1976), broadcaster and journalist, is the lead presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship current affairs programme, The World At One, and a former presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, and former political editor of Newsnight.
• Mary Archer (Weeden, 1962), scientist, is an academic specialising in the direct conversion of solar energy to chemical fuels or electric power. She has been Chairman of Addenbrooke's NHS Trust, Cambridge, since 2002.
• Mary Harron (1972), film director and screenwriter, most well known for her films I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), American Psycho (2000) and The Notorious Bettie Page (2006).
• Melanie Phillips (1970), journalist and author, has written a regular column for the Daily Mail since 2001, and her books include All Must Have Prizes (1996) and Londonistan: How Britain Is Creating a Terror State Within (2006).
• Melinda Letts (1974), is former Chief Executive of the National Asthma Campaign, and chaired the Long-term Medical Conditions Alliance and was commissioner with CHI and its successor body, the Healthcare Commission.
• Michelle Clayman (1972), investment banker, is Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of New Amsterdam Partners in New York.
• Mike Colling (1979), advertising executive, is founder and Managing Director of MC&C.
• Mike Danson (1982) is Chairman of Progressive Digital Media Group. He is founder and former Managing Director of Datamonitor, one of the world’s leading providers of online database and analysis services for key industry sectors.
• Nannerl Keohane (Overholser, 1961), academic and political theorist, was President of Wellesley College, Massachussetts (1981-93), and Duke University, North Carolina (1993-2004). She is currently Visiting Professor of Public Affairs at Princeton University, and on the governing body of Harvard University.
• Nicholas Martin (1979), Chief Operating Officer at the Legatum Institute, formerly CEO at Bindmans LLP and Matrix Chambers.
• Paul Donovan (1990), economist, is Managing Director, Global Economics at UBS.
• Peggy Woodford (1956), writer, is author of numerous novels for children and adults including Abraham’s Legacy (1963) and most recently One Son is Enough (2006).
• Penelope Lively (Low, 1951), writer, whose adult fiction includes the Booker Prize-winning Moon Tiger (1987), and Booker Prize-shortlisted The Road to Lichfield (1977) and According To Mark (1984), and whose children’s novels include The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1973), winner of the Carnegie Medal, and the Whitbread Prize-winning A Stitch in Time (1976).
• Pepita Capriolo (1976), lawyer, is a judge of the Quebec Superior Court in Montréal, Canada.
• Polly Toynbee (1966), journalist, is a former BBC social affairs correspondent, columnist for The Guardian since 1988, and author of Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britain (2003). She was elected President of the British Humanist Association in 2007.
• Presiley Baxendale (1969), lawyer, is a Queen’s Counsel, leading mediator, and was Joint Head of Blackstone Chambers 1998-2004.
• Richard Girling (1984), investment banker, is a Partner of Centerview Partners and CEO of Centerview Partners Europe, which he founded in 2009. He was previously Global Co-Head of Healthcare Investment Banking for Merrill Lynch.
• Russell Taylor (1979), writer, journalist and composer, is best known as half of the team that creates the comic strip ‘Alex’ which appears in The Daily Telegraph.
• Rosalind Micklem (1975) is National Director for Scotland at the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
• Ruth Deech (Fraenkel, 1962), academic and peer, Fellow in Law (1970-91), and then Principal (1991-2004), at St Anne’s College, Oxford, she chaired the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (1994-2002), was a governor of the BBC (2002-06), and appointed the first Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education in 2004. She was created a life peer, Baroness Deech of Cumnor, in 2005 and she has been Chair of the Bar Standards Board since 2009.
• Sharmila Nebhrajani (1985), finance executive, is Director of Finance and Contracting at NHS East Sussex Downs and Weald and NHS Hastings and Rother. She was previously the Chief Operating Officer and Finance Director of the BBC's New Media and Technology business since 2002. She is Deputy Chair at the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority, and a member of the Charity Commission.
• Shawn Collinson (1980), management consultant, is Chief Strategy Officer for Accenture.
• Shirley Pearce (1972), psychologist and academic, former Dean of the Institute of Health and Director of the Centre for Interprofessional Practice at the University of East Anglia, she was appointed Vice-Chancellor at the University of Loughborough in 2006.
• Shirley Sherwood (1952) is a collector of, and author of books about, botanical illustrations. The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, opened on 19 April 2008, at Kew Gardens houses her collection, and is named after her.
• Simon Rattle (1980), musician, principal conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra between 1980 and 1998, he was elected principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1999. He was knighted in 1994.
• Stella Tillyard (1975), historian and writer, whose books include Aristocrats (1994), which was adapted into a highly successful BBC TV series, Citizen Lord (1997) and A Royal Affair (2006). Her first novel, Tides of War, was published in May 2011.
• Susanna White (1980), television and film director, has helped create some of the most critically successful and popular TV drama series of recent years, including Jane Eyre (2006), Bleak House (2005), Teachers (2003), and Holby City (2000).  She most recently directed the film Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010).
• Tina Brown (1971), journalist and author, has edited Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker magazines, and wrote The Diana Chronicles (2007). In 2008 she became co-founder and editor of the online news magazine, The Daily Beast, which recently merged with the US weekly magazine Newsweek. She currently serves as editor-in-chief of both publications.
• UA Fanthorpe (1949), poet, whose published works include Safe as Houses (1995) and Collected Poems (2005), the first woman in 315 years to be nominated for the post of Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2003.
• Ursula Gacek (Sauc, 1981), Polish politician, is Polish Ambassador to the Council of Europe.
• Valerie Pearl (Bence, 1946), academic and historian, is author of several scholarly works on the English Civil War, and was President of New Hall, Cambridge, 1981-95.
• Victor Ubogu (1987), sportsman, was a prop for the England rugby union team, 1992-99. He now owns and runs a hospitality travel company, VU Limited.
• Victor Kuk (1990) is Chief Executive of Axa Insurance Greater China & South East Asia.
• Wendy Beckett (1950), art historian, is author of books including Sister Wendy's Odyssey (1992) and Sister Wendy's Grand Tour (1994), based on her BBC TV series of the same name.
• William Sieghart (1979), publisher, is founder and Chairman of Forward Ltd, one of the leading publishing agencies in the world. He founded National Poetry Day and Forward Poetry Prizes (1992); Bedtime Reading Week (2000); The Big Arts Week (2002) and Streetsmart Action for the Homeless (1996). He is the Chairman of Forward Thinking, an organisation which engages groups deemed to be beyond diplomacy.
• Zoë Heller (1984), journalist and author, who has written columns for The Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and Independent, and whose second novel Notes on a Scandal (2003) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and later adapted into a film starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett.

 (List correct as at August 2011. Please contact Kate Davy to correct any errors.)