Marjorie Scardino

Former CEO of Pearson; First Female Member of Twitter's Board

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Marjorie Scardino Biography

Marjorie Scardino, DBE, FRSA is the former CEO of Pearson PLC. She became the first female chief executive of a FTSE 100 company when she was appointed CEO of Pearson in 1997. She is also a non-executive director of Nokia and former CEO of the Economist Group. During her time at Pearson, she had tripled profits to a record £942m. In December 2013, she joined the board of Twitter as its first female director, after a controversy involving a lack of diversity on the Twitter board.

Before 1985 she was the editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, The Georgia Gazette, where she worked with her husband Albert Scardino, later a media reporter for The New York Times.

Scardino is a graduate of Baylor University and the University of San Francisco School of Law.

In 2007 she was listed 17th on the Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women in the World.

In 2012, she stepped down as CEO of Pearson to be replaced by John Fallon.

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