to have met with so many top firms...they had a huge number of ideas about what we should be doing for them". Lord Mayor of London On 29 September 2013, she was elected as Lord Mayor of London, only the second time in its 800-year history that a woman has held this office. She succeeded Sir Roger Gifford as Lord Mayor on 8 November 2013 during the annual "Silent Ceremony" at the Guildhall. The City's second female Lord Mayor, following Dame Mary Donaldson (Lord Mayor 1983–84), Woolf was interviewed by Cathy Newman for a Daily Telegraph profile article, taking the opportunity to promote one of her mayoral campaigning themes, namely the furtherance of women in executive careers and the correction of the traditional imbalance between the sexes in senior City positions. She sponsored a Long Finance initiative during her year as Lord Mayor, "Financing Tomorrow's Cities", which examined new mechanisms for funding sustainability. She made regular media appearances about the Lord Mayor's role in welcoming the world to London, and ventured onto a catwalk at the Old Bailey during London Fashion Week. Other She was the Chancellor of the University of Law 2014–2018. She was a member of the Competition Commission (UK) 2005–2013, Alderman for the Ward of Candlewick in the City of London 2007–2018, and was Sheriff of London for 2010 – 2011. Woolf was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London, in March 2016. She is a Trustee of the Science Museum and Honorary President of the Aldersgate Group Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse On 5 September 2014 it was announced that Woolf would chair the independent panel inquiry that would examine how the UK's institutions have handled their duties to protect children from sexual abuse. On 21 October 2014, Woolf disclosed that she lived in the same London street as Lord Brittan and had invited the Conservative peer and his wife, Diana Brittan, to dinner on three occasions. Lord Brittan had been Home Secretary in 1984 when ministers were handed a dossier on alleged high-profile paedophiles; he has insisted that the proper procedures were followed. In total, she had dined with Lord Brittan and his family five times since 2008, and also had joined Lady Brittan for coffee on a "small number of occasions". Woolf further disclosed that she had been involved in the past with bodies with which the Brittans had also had involvement. The BBC