Liliana Leah Archibald ( Kalmanowsky, later Barou; 25 May 1928 – 1 June 2014) was an English insurance broker for Lloyd's of London. She began her career as an economics lecturer at the University of Otago and translated books on the history of Russia. Archibald began her finance career in 1955 with her stepfather's firm, Moscow Narodny Bank, and became Lloyd's first accredited women insurance broker in 1973. She worked to harmonize the EEC's member states differing export credit systems from Brussels as chief of the Division for Credit Insurance and Export Credit of the European Commission. Archibald also served on several government bodies and committees, and was Lloyd's EEC adviser. Biography Early life Archibald was born to Russian Jewish immigrants Emanuel Eshuah Kalmanowsky and his wife Sophie, (née) Gissen at the Welbeck Hospital in Marylebone, London on 25 May 1928. Her father was a civil engineer and company director who abandoned the family soon after she was born. Archibald had an older brother, Alexander. Her mother later married family friend Noah Barou, the head of London's Moscow Narodny Bank branch, and Liliana took on his surname. In 1935, she began to be taught at Kingsley Lodge School for Girls in Belsize Park, which was evacuated to Tintagel, Cornwall when the Second World War broke out in 1935, remaining there until the war ended. Archibald learnt how to hand-milk cows during her time at the school. She left the school in 1947, and took courses in History, Literature, and Philosophy at the University of Geneva from 1947 to 1949, and also worked as a translator for the United Nations. Career In 1952, Archibald moved to New Zealand and was appointed economics lecturer of the University of Otago and tutored in Russian history. She translated the fourth edition of Vasily Klyuchevsky's History of Russia and edited and translated its third volume. Archibald returned to the United Kingdom in 1955 to join her stepfather's firm as a specialist in providing banks with credit insurance, claiming salaries for a career in academia were too low. In 1957, she was appointed a director of Credit Consultants and joined the sole contingency brokers to provide overseas clients with contingency insurance, Adam Brothers Contingency. Archibald was appointed director of Adam Brothers Contingency in 1970. Following the recommendation of the 1968 Cromer Report, Lloyd's of London lifted a restriction on women brokers, leading her Adam Brothers colleagues