Alison Allden, OBE

Since retiring from her role as CEO of the Higher Education Statistics Agency, concerned with UK wide HE data capture and information provision, Alison Allden has pursued a non-exec portfolio and undertaken consultancy as well as coaching and mentoring engagements. Alison is a member of the Bar Standards Board, responsible for the regulation and training of barristers, and is on the Board of Study Group UK and Regent’s University London Ltd. She is the external member on Cambridge University’s strategic IS Committee.

Prior to that Alison was on the senior executive of Bristol University as Deputy Registrar and Director of IS. She was Director of IT at Warwick University and Director of Computing for Goldsmiths College University of London. She began her career as an archaeologist and then moved to the British Museum’s computerization team and took an MSc at LSE in computing and management.

In 2016 New Year’s Honors she was awarded an OBE for services to Higher Education.