Elizabeth Fagan (born August 1957) is a Scottish businesswoman, chair of D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership, and the former managing director of Boots UK.

Early life and education

She was born in August 1957, one of eleven children and grew up in Scotland. She has a degree in biochemistry, studying in Glasgow. In 2018, Fagan was given an honorary doctorate from

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Career

After university, she taught chemistry from 1980 to 1983 at Scottish secondary schools.

Boots

From 2006 to 2007 she was managing director of Boots Opticians. She comes from the commercial side of the company, not the technical or pharmaceutical side. It was announced that she would become managing director of Boots UK on 9 June 2016, taking over in July 2016. She is the first female managing director of Boots UK. Seb James replaced her as managing director at Boots on 1 September 2018. Fagan was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for services to gender equality in business.

D2N2

In July 2018 Fagan was appointed chair of D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership, an organisation tasked with stimulating economic growth across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

References

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