Alison Johns was the chief executive of Advance HE in the UK. Advance HE website, Alison Johns, retrieved September 19, 2024 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

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. University of St Andrews website, Alison Johns 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. University of St Andrews website, Standing Committees, retrieved 19 September, 2024

Education

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

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