Elizabeth Fagan

Elizabeth Fagan CBE (born August 1957) is a Scottish businesswoman, chair of D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership, and the former managing director of Boots UK.

She was born in August 1957,^[1] one of eleven children and grew up in Scotland.^{[citation needed]} She has a degree in biochemistry, studying in Glasgow.^[2]

In 2018, Fagan was given an honorary doctorate from Nottingham Trent University.^[2]

After university, she taught chemistry from 1980 to 1983 at Scottish secondary schools.^{[citation needed]}

From 2006 to 2007 she was managing director of Boots Opticians. She comes from the commercial side of the company, not the technical or pharmaceutical side.

It was announced that she would become managing director of Boots UK on 9 June 2016,^[3] taking over in July 2016.

She is the first female managing director of Boots UK. Seb James replaced her as managing director at Boots on 1 September 2018.

Fagan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to gender equality in business.^[4]

In July 2018 Fagan was appointed chair of D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership, an organisation tasked with stimulating economic growth across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.^[5] She revealed a £4m "Angel Fund" in May 2024 that was available to new companies in Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire that are between 6 and 18 months old.^[6]