Dinah Rose

The University of Oxford's LGBTQ+ Society subsequently released a report in September 2021, examining Oxford Colleges' conflict of interest policies. The Society advocated for a formal duty to consider the impact of continuing professional obligations and that serving College Heads do not engage in activities that adversely impact marginalised minority groups. The Oxford LGBTQ+ Society and the Oxford African & Caribbean Society repeated this after the judgment in the Cayman Island's case was delivered on March 14, 2022, claiming that Rose breached Magdalen College's equality policy and that her client's interests ran against those of her LGBTQ+ and ethnic minority students.

In January 2021, Rose was criticised by former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and Oxford alumnus Edwin Cameron for acting for the Cayman Islands government in a case opposing the legalisation of same-sex marriage. This was followed by mixed reactions within the student body, academia and the legal industry.

In February 2020, she was elected President of Magdalen College, Oxford, in succession to Sir David Clary: she is the first woman to hold the position. She took up the post in September 2020, becoming the 43rd President of the college.

In March 2013, Rose ended her party membership of the Liberal Democrats in protest at Nick Clegg's support for the coalition government's justice and security bill describing it as a "betrayal of the party's guiding principles".

It was announced in October 2012 that Rose had been appointed by the BBC to investigate its culture and policies in relation to sexual harassment and bullying, following the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal. Respect at Work, for which 930 employees were interviewed, was published at the beginning of May 2013. Rose and her team found 37 cases of alleged sexual harassment by 35 persons between April 2006 and November 2012, but said cases of bullying were much more common, and were often not properly investigated by BBC management. Rose said in June that a "very troubling" atmosphere existed between staff and their superiors at the BBC.

She was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1989, and took silk in 2006. In a July 2009 interview with The Lawyer, she referred to Lord Lester QC as a mentor and described Lord Pannick QC as a huge influence.

Dinah Gwen Lison Rose KC (born 16 July 1965) is a British barrister. She has been President of Magdalen College, Oxford since 2020. A member of Blackstone Chambers, she was named Barrister of the Year in The Lawyer Awards 2009. In 2016, she was appointed a Deputy Judge of the High Court.

Rose was born on 16 July 1965, and was educated at City of London School for Girls. She studied modern history at Magdalen College, Oxford, and law at City University.