Alison Johns is the chief executive of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, and a past president of the Association of University Administrators. In December 2017 she was named as the chief executive officer-designate of a new organisation which will consist of the former Leadership Foundation, the Equality Challenge Unit and the Higher Education Academy. Education Johns has a masters in management learning from Lancaster University where she studied part-time in the 1990s. References Living people British chief executives Alumni of Lancaster University Year of birth missing (living people)