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Mrs Squire served as HM Ambassador to Tallinn at the time Estonia was preparing to join the European Union and NATO in 2000–3, and is currently group director in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s London-based service organisation, FCO Services. Primarily a specialist in Central Europe, she has also held diplomatic posts in Tel Aviv, Senegal and Washington DC.

Hughes Hall is Cambridge’s oldest graduate college. It has over 500 students, half of them from overseas and a third studying for PhDs, and a strong sporting tradition, especially in rugby. ̽��ֱ��president is elected by the college’s 45 fellows.

A longtime resident of Cambridge, Mrs Squire is a graduate of Newnham College, where she read History. Her husband, Dr Bill Squire, was the ̽��ֱ��’s first development director, and she has two children, James and Emma, both born during her time in Washington.

̽��ֱ��current president of Hughes Hall, Professor Peter Richards, formally Dean of St Mary’s Medical School and director of Northwick Park, joined the college in 1998. During his presidency Hughes Hall has erected a new £9m residential building overlooking the university cricket ground that contains 80 student rooms and a new dining hall, kitchens and combination room.

Mrs Squire said: “I am delighted to be joining Hughes Hall, which has developed at an astonishing rate in recent years. It is a friendly, non-traditional college, committed to academic excellence and to high quality professional education. My predecessor has achieved an enormous amount and I’ll be taking over at a very interesting point in the college’s history, with many opportunities to follow up.”