General Eva Burrows AC AO (b. 1929) is the former world leader of The Salvation Army. Her parents were both Salvation Army officers, and she was commissioned herself in 1951, having completed an arts degree at Queensland University. She worked for many years in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) before becoming the principal of the international officers’ college in London. From 1977 she combined spiritual and administrative leadership as a ‘territorial commander’ in Sri Lanka, Scotland and southern Australia. She became General and World Leader in 1986. Burrows was the second woman to hold the position of General; under the Army’s constitution her term should have expired in 1991, but she was persuaded by international leaders to stay on until her retirement in 1993. During this time she led the Army back into Eastern Europe. She now lives in Melbourne.