Sir Lindsay is an alumnus of the College and matriculated in 1965 to read Modern Languages. He is an Honorary Fellow and a trustee of the Worcester College Oxford Endowment Trust. He was appointed Chairman and CEO of L’Oréal in 1988 and has been its Honorary President since 2011. He is a Commandeur of the Légion d’Honneur and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Worcester College seeks to be a forward-looking Oxford college with academic excellence at its core. This exceptional donation will help us achieve our ambition, transforming the learning and living environment at Worcester College through the construction of two innovative new buildings.
The first, The Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones Library, will offer the modern and accessible workspaces and facilities which students require to excel. Far more than a library, the vision is for the new building to create the best circumstances for study and collaboration for all Worcester’s staff and students. It will not only deliver contemporary spaces for individual and joint working using multi-media facilities; it will be a landmark building situated at the heart of the College site and constructed to the highest environmental standards. This state-of-the-art facility will complement our historic Lower Library, which will continue to offer a home to our internationally-significant special collections.
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