Elizabeth Fagan


Elizabeth Fagan 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 July 2018 Fagan was awarded an Degree of Doctor of Science from Nottingham Trent University in recognition of her significant contribution to education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, equality and diversity, and civic leadership.

Career

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

Boots

From 2006-07 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 Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 New Year Honours 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.