Alison is CEO of Age International and a member of the Age UK Senior Leadership Team. She leads Age International’s work on the needs and rights of older people across low- and middle-income countries, overseeing governance, advocacy, fundraising, communications, programme funding and humanitarian work.
Alison has over 25 years’ experience in international development. She was previously Managing Director of Sense International, working for and with people with disabilities. Before that she held senior roles at the International Planned Parenthood Federation, UNICEF UK, Bond and CAFOD. Her work on human rights has seen her travel extensively, most recently to visit work with older people in India, Rwanda, Vietnam, Pakistan and Tanzania.
Alison is on the Boards of the Disasters Emergency Committee and the Fairtrade Foundation.
She holds a MSc in NGO Management from Bayes Business School, a LLM in Human Rights from the University of London, and MAs from Sussex University and from Cambridge University where she studied Geography.