Alison Allden was Chief Executive Officer of the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) from 2009 to 2015. Since then she has developed a non-executive portfolio and undertakes consultancy in the higher education sector. She is Deputy Chair of Regent’s University London, on the UK Board of Study Group and a trustee on the Board of Harper Adams University. She is an Associate of Advance HE and an external member of the University of Cambridge Information Services Committee.
Alison provides sector wide governor development and bespoke board level induction, particularly focusing on strategy development, academic assurance and the appreciation of metrics, performance and digital innovation.
Prior to HESA, she was a member of the senior executive at the University of Bristol with a wide brief across student and support services. Previously she was Director of IT at the University of Warwick and Director of Computing at Goldsmiths University of London.
In the 2016 New Year’s Honours Alison was awarded an OBE for services to higher education.