Dawn Austwick
Dawn Austwick is chief executive of the Big Lottery Fund.
Before joining the Fund, Dawn was chief executive of Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, and previously deputy director of the British Museum, project director of Tate Modern, a principal consultant at KPMG and theatre manager of the Half Moon Theatre.
Dawn has an MBA from the London Business School and an honorary doctorate from London Metropolitan University. She is a trustee of the London Marathon Charitable Trust and a member of the government’s Inclusive Economy Board, and the Advisory Council of the Institute of Policy Research at the University of Bath.
Dawn was a trustee of Historic Royal Palaces from 2007 to 2016 and the Woodland Trust from 2001 to 2008, and she was a director of Big Society Capital during its start-up phase.
