Belinda Earl

Belinda Earl is businesswoman and current Style Director of Marks and Spencer who in 2003 became the youngest FTSE 500 retail chief executive.

She was born in the city of Plymouth, Devon, England and attended St Dunstans Abbey School for Girls. She started working as a Saturday shop assistant in the menswear department of her local Debenhams at the age of 16, and managed a gift shop following successful sixth form studies, after which she was admitted to her degree course in economics and business at The University of Wales, Aberystwyth. After graduating in 1983 she turned down an offer to train with a firm of accountants to pursue her love of retail and fashion by working as a graduate trainee in the womenswear department of Harrods.

Source: Wikipedia