Alison Johns

Alison Johns
Academic background
Alma materLancaster University
Academic work
InstitutionsLeadership Foundation for Higher Education

Alison Johns is 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.