{{short description|British businesswoman, CEO}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Dawn Austwick | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1960|12}} | alma_mater = University of London <br /> London Business School | title = CEO, Big Lottery Fund | spouse = Married | children = 3 }}
'''Dawn Jacquelyn Austwick''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (born December 1960)<ref name="companieshouse.gov.uk">{{cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/F8E-N58WSuOFcF_aTj5k4R5z01o/appointments|title=Dawn Jacquelyn AUSTWICK - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)|publisher=|accessdate=10 December 2016}}</ref> was the chief executive (CEO) of the Big Lottery Fund from October 2014 to 2020.<ref name="auto" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/about/our-people/senior-management-team|title=Senior Management Team {{!}} Big Lottery Fund|website=www.biglotteryfund.org.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-06-22}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|first=Melanie |last=May|date=2020-06-04|title=Dawn Austwick to step down from National Lottery Community Fund|url=https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/06/04/dawn-austwick-to-step-down-from-national-lottery-community-fund/|access-date=2021-03-01|website=UK Fundraising|language=en-GB}}</ref>
== Education== Austwick was educated at Royal High School, Bath, followed by a bachelor's degree from London University, and an MBA from the London Business School.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/03/dawn-austwick-ceo-big-lottery-fund-austerity-challenges|title=The Big Lottery's Dawn Austwick: 'The people we fund are extraordinary'|first=Alison|last=Benjamin|date=3 June 2014|publisher=|accessdate=10 December 2016|via=The Guardian}}</ref>
== Career == After university, Austwick worked in arts sponsorship and fundraising before becoming a management consultant at KPMG. She was then the project director overseeing the opening of Tate Modern. From 2002-2005, Austwick was deputy director of the British Museum.<ref name=":0" /> She was chief executive (CEO) of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation from 2008 to 2014, prior to becoming CEO of the Big Lottery Fund.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/interview-dawn-austwick/fundraising/article/1186271|title=Interview: Dawn Austwick|publisher=|accessdate=10 December 2016}}</ref><ref name="auto" /><ref name="companieshouse.gov.uk" /><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.womanandhome.com/life/news-entertainment/meet-the-women-behind-your-favourite-charities-2-105763/|title=Meet The Women Behind Your Favourite Charities|date=2016-02-08|work=woman&home|access-date=2018-06-22|language=en-US}}</ref>
==Honours== She was awarded an honorary doctorate from London Metropolitan University in 2006.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/profiles/honorary-graduates/|title=Honorary graduates|work=London Metropolitan University|access-date=2018-06-22|language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== Austwick is married with three children, and lives in north London.<ref name="auto"/>
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