All the world’s a stage (TT May11 p44-46)

As tax and treasury director of a UK business that is steadily strengthening its international presence, Lesley Flowerdew was well qualified to be the most recent chairman of the ACT’s Deals of the Year judging panel. Her day job, based at Epsom in Surrey, is at the offices of Atkins, an engineering and design consultancy with 18,000 staff across 180 offices in 28 countries.