Dame Teresa Lesley Rees, DBE, FAcSS, FLSW (11 June 1949 – 22 September 2023) was a British social scientist, and a professor at Cardiff University. She specialised in the analysis of gender equality within education, training and labour market policies.[1]
Teresa Lesley Rees was born in Wells, Somerset on 11 June 1949.[2] She was professor emerita in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. She was principal investigator for the Women Adding Value to the Economy (WAVE) project, a visiting professor at Sweden's GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, and director of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.[3] [4]
A former Equal Opportunities commissioner, she received the Welsh Woman of the Year Award for "outstanding contributions to women in Wales", and in 2002 was made a CBE for her work on equal opportunities and higher education.[4] In 2012, she was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[5] In January 2015, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) "for services to social sciences".[6]
Dame Teresa Rees died of cancer on 22 September 2023, at the age of 74.[7] [2]