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In Brief :
Born : 23 October 1942
Died : 10 September 2007
Married : T. Gordon Roddick, 1970
Children : Justine 1969, Samantha 1971
Grandchildren : Maiya Hopi 1994, Atticus-Finch 1998, Osha Sophia Bluebell 1998
Education : Maude Allen Secondary Modern School for Girls, Littlehampton;
Newton Park College of Higher Education, Bath
Career 1962-76
Library of International Herald Tribune, Paris
Teacher of English and History, England
Women's Rights Dept. of International Labor Organization (ILO), based at UN, Geneva
Owner and Manager of a restaurant and hotel in Littlehampton
Opened The Body Shop in Brighton, West Sussex, England on 26th March 1976 |
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Trustee/Board Member
From 1984 The Body Shop International Plc
From 1989 The Body Shop Foundation
From 1994 Mother Jones' Magazine - Foundation for National Progress, USA
1996 - 1997 Human Rights Watch, USA
From 1999 The Ruckus Society, USA
From 2003 Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, USA
Patron
From 1991 Schumacher College for Human Scale Education
From 1994 Association for Creation Spirituality
From 1996 Body and Soul (women & families with HIV and AIDS)
From 1998 EMMA (Ethnic Minority Media Awards)
From 2002 Findhorn Foundation College
From 2002 My Acre Of Africa, South Africa
From 2004 The Forgiveness Project
From 2007 The Hepatitis C Trust
From 2007 Emmaus Hampshire
Selected Awards Received
1984 Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year
1988 OBE - Order of the British Empire
1988 British Association of Industrial Editors, Communicator of Year
1991 Center for World Development Education's World Vision Award, USA
1991 The Financial Evening Standard Outstanding Entrepreneur Analysis Award
1992 National Association of Women Business Owners (US) Business Leader of Year
1993 Banksia Foundation's Australia Environmental Award
1993 Mexican Environmental Achiever Award
1993 National Audubon Society Medal, USA
1994 Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics, USA
1994 University of Michigan's Annual Business Leadership Award, USA
1994 Daily Express/Moet & Chandon Business Award
1995 Women's Business Development Center's First Annual Woman Power Award, USA
1996 Women's Center's Leadership Award, USA
1996 The Gleitsman Foundation's Award of Achievement, USA
1996 Institute of Charitable Fundraising Managers (UK), Philanthropist of the Year
1997 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Honouree, Eyes on the
Environment
1998 Marketing Retail Design Award
1999 British Environment & Media Award
1999 Chief Wiper-Away of Ogoni Tears, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, Nigeria
2001 International Peace Prayer Day Organisation's Woman of Peace
2003 DBE (Dame Commander of the British Empire). |
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