Honours and Offices
She was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting in 2001. At that time she was chairman of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). She has also won a Special Lifetime Achievement award from BAFTA. She was chairman of the Women of the Year Lunch for five years and a Millennium Commissioner. She is president of the Elizabeth ’R’ Commonwealth Broadcasting Fund and a governor of the National Film and Television School. She was a governor of Dulwich College, where her mother once worked and her son attended. She is a Vice-President of the Royal Commonwealth Society.
In 2010 Floella Benjamin was appointed Chair of Governors at the Isle of Sheppey academy until her term in office expired at the end of 2011; Ralph Mainard replaced her as Chair of Governors, as part of a strong partnership between the Isle of Sheppey Academy and Dulwich College.
In 2006, she became an honorary graduate of the University of Exeter and was awarded the degree of Hon D.Litt (Exon) for contributions to the life of the United Kingdom. Lady Benjamin succeeded Lord Alexander of Weedon to become the Chancellor of the University of Exeter.
In 2008 she was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London.
In the 2010 Dissolution Honours List announced on on 28 May 2010 she was appointed a Liberal Democrat Life Peer.
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