In September 2008, Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas was appointed Chairman of the New West End Company. In this role she plays a key part in managing and promoting the interests of the district and developing and driving forward the commercial opportunities for the world’s top shopping destination, London’s West End. Born and educated in New Zealand, Judith Mayhew Jonas graduated LLM from the University of Otago, where she lectured before moving to the UK as a lecturer in law at King's College, University of London where she set up and became Director of the Anglo French Law Degree (Sorbonne), the first joint degree in Europe. In 1989, Judith entered private practice as an employment lawyer, and became Special Adviser to the Chairman at Clifford Chance, the world's largest law firm, before resigning to concentrate on her other roles. In 2006 she was appointed to the Board of Directors of Merrill Lynch in New York.
| Types | Person, Business Person |
| Gender | Female |