Dame Elizabeth Mary Keegan, DBE (born 1953) is a retired accountant and civil servant.
Born in 1953, she attended Brentwood County High School and Somerville College, Oxford, before working at Price Waterhouse from 1977;[1] she was appointed their first female audit partner in 1985 and in 1994 became the firm's director of professional standards for Europe.[2]
In 2001, she left to chair the Accounting Standards Board, serving until 2004. That year, she was appointed Head of the Government Finance Profession.
She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2007 Birthday Honours and stepped down in 2008.[3] [4] She was awarded the Institute of Chartered Accountants' Award for Outstanding Achievement in 2014, and is an honorary fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.