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Elizabeth Sparrow is one of the four female Past Presidents of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and is an author and consultant, specializing in outsourcing relationships and change management programmes.

Elizabeth Sparrow is an IT professional and has held a number of leadership roles including an extended term as President of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (formerly the British Computer Society).

Education
Sparrow has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Southampton and a Masters in Information Studies from the University of Sheffield

Career
Sparrow began her career at the British Library where she carried out a review of the Library Association Library

She has worked at a the Crown Suppliers and the Crown Prosecution Service where she was responsible for managing changes in working practices in a programme that was integrated with simultaneous changes taking place throughout the criminal justice system. As IT Director and member of the Senior Civil Service at the Home Office she led a major infrastructure upgrade project and launched an innovative private finance initiative.(1)(4)(5) Since 1999 Sparrow has been an author and consultant.She has authored two books on outsourcing and globalisation: Successful IT Outsourcing and A Guide to Global Sourcing - Offshore Outsourcing and Other Global Delivery Models

Professional and Voluntary Activities
At the British Computer Society (BCS) Sparrow chaired a working party on offshoring which viewed the inexorable growth of IT offshoring both as a challenge and an opportunity for the UK’s IT profession. As well as analysing the offshoring phenomenon the group recommended an action plan to help the UK’s IT profession respond to globalization, Sparrow has regularly written and commented on the impact of offshoring ,