Alison Johns Explained

Alison Johns
Workplaces:Leadership Foundation for Higher Education
Alma Mater:Lancaster University

Alison Johns is the chief executive of Advance HE in the UK.[1] [2]

She was previously chief executive of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education,[3] and helped lead the LFHE into a merger with the Equality Challenge Unit and the Higher Education Academy to form Advance HE in 2018.[4] In December 2017 she was named as the chief executive officer-designate of the new organisation.[5] [6]

She is also a past president of the Association of University Administrators.[7]

In 2024, she is also a non-executive member of Court at the University of St Andrews.[8]

Education

Johns has a masters in management learning from Lancaster University where she studied part-time in the 1990s.[9]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/person/alison-johns Advance HE website, Alison Johns, retrieved September 19, 2024
  2. https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2024/05/16/advance-he-ceo-alison-johns-how-our-new-guidance-on-protected-beliefs-will-help-on-free-speech-issues/ Higher Education Policy Institute website, Advance HE CEO Alison Johns: how our new guidance on protected beliefs will help on free speech issues, article dated 16 May, 2024
  3. Web site: Alison Johns confirmed as the new chief executive of the Leadership Foundation . https://web.archive.org/web/20161014050728/http://www.lfhe.ac.uk/en/news/index.cfm/AJCEnews . 2016-10-14 . heacademy.ac.uk . . 7 November 2014 . 1 January 2018 . live .
  4. https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/governance/court/senior-lay-election/alison-johns/ University of St Andrews website, Alison Johns
  5. Web site: HEA welcomes the sector agency merger . https://web.archive.org/web/20180101192040/https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/about/news/hea-welcomes-sector-agency-merger . 1 January 2018 . heacademy.ac.uk . . 18 December 2017 . 1 January 2018.
  6. News: Alison Johns named chief executive of UK's merged sector agency . . 11 September 2017 . 1 January 2018.
  7. Web site: Chief Executive-designate appointed to lead new HE sector agency . universitiesuk.ac.uk . . 11 September 2017 . 1 January 2018.
  8. https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/governance/court/standing-committees/ University of St Andrews website, Standing Committees, retrieved 19 September, 2024
  9. News: Interview with Alison Johns . . 21 September 2017 . 2 January 2018.

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