Maureen Elizabeth MacGlashan, CMG was Assistant Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law from 1986–1990 and is now a Fellow of the Centre.

From 1963 to 1998 she was a member of the British Diplomatic Service. She served in, among other places, such hot spots as Israel, Eastern Europe, and Northern Ireland. Her final Diplomatic position was as British Ambassador to the Holy See (1995–1998), the first woman to fill that post.^[1]

Since her time as Assistant Director of the Lauterpacht Centre, she has been responsible for the indexing of a number of the Centre's publications including the ILR, Iran-US Claims Tribunal Reports, ICSID Reports and the International Environmental Law Reports. She also indexes a number of non-Centre publications, and occasionally translates (e.g. Prosper Weil's The Law of Maritime Delimitation for the University of Cambridge).^[2] She was editor of The Indexer, the international journal of indexing, from 2004 to 2018.^[3]

MacGlashan studied at Girton College, Cambridge.^[1]

• British Ambassadors to the Holy See

• Ruth Gledhill. "Britain sends first woman ambassador to Vatican". The Times. 11 March 1995. p 7.
• Sally Kinnes. "Rome with a view". Scotland on Sunday. 14 May 1995. Spectrum (magazine supplement). p 4.
• "On the road to Rome: Maureen MacGlashan, who supports contraception, abortion and women priests". Scotland on Sunday. 14 May 1995. Spectrum (magazine supplement). p 4.
• "Maureen MacGlashan, Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Holy See" (1996) 190 Country Life 82 (4 July 1996)
• "Goodbye and hello" in "Notebook". The Tablet. 3 January 1998. p 13.
• "Britain's woman ambassador". The Tablet. 18 March 1995. p 374.
• Annabel Miller. "Women in the Vatican". The Tablet. 29 March / 5 April 1997. p 428 at p 430.
• "One year on" (1996) 31 The Venerabile 115 (Venerable English College)

• Letter to Blair
• The Left Coaster
• Cambridge University related site
• Cambridge University related site^{[permanent dead link]}