Alison Johns


Alison Johns was the chief executive of Advance HE in the UK.
She was previously chief executive of the Leadership Foundation for [Higher Education], and helped lead the LFHE into a merger with the Equality Challenge Unit and the Higher [Education Academy] to form Advance HE in 2018. In December 2017 she was named as the chief executive officer-designate of the new organisation.
She is also a past president of the Association of [University Administrators].
In 2024, she is also a non-executive member of Court at the University of St Andrews.

Education

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