{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scholar | name = Alison Johns | image = <!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing brackets --> | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | fullname = | othernames = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD}} Use {{Birth date|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD}}. --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | death_cause = | residence = | era = | region = | workplaces = Leadership Foundation for Higher Education | alma_mater = Lancaster University | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | school_tradition = | main_interests = | principal_ideas = | major_works = | awards = | influences = | influenced = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | footnotes = }} '''Alison Johns''' was the chief executive of Advance HE in the UK.<ref>[https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/person/alison-johns Advance HE website, ''Alison Johns'', retrieved September 19, 2024]</ref><ref>[https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2024/05/16/advance-he-ceo-alison-johns-how-our-new-guidance-on-protected-beliefs-will-help-on-free-speech-issues/ 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]</ref>
She was previously chief executive of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education,<ref name="LFHE_UK">{{cite web | title = Alison Johns confirmed as the new chief executive of the Leadership Foundation | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161014050728/http://www.lfhe.ac.uk/en/news/index.cfm/AJCEnews | archive-date = 2016-10-14 | url = http://www.lfhe.ac.uk:80/en/news/index.cfm/AJCEnews | website = heacademy.ac.uk | publisher = Higher Education Academy | date = 7 November 2014 | access-date = 1 January 2018 | url-status = live }}</ref> and helped lead the LFHE into a merger with the Equality Challenge Unit and the Higher Education Academy to form Advance HE in 2018.<ref>[https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/governance/court/senior-lay-election/alison-johns/ University of St Andrews website, ''Alison Johns'']</ref> In December 2017 she was named as the chief executive officer-designate of the new organisation.<ref name="HEA_UK">{{cite web | title = HEA welcomes the sector agency merger | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180101192040/https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/about/news/hea-welcomes-sector-agency-merger | archive-date = 1 January 2018 | url = https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/about/news/hea-welcomes-sector-agency-merger | website = heacademy.ac.uk | publisher = Higher Education Academy | date = 18 December 2017 | access-date = 1 January 2018}}</ref><ref name="THE">{{cite news | title = Alison Johns named chief executive of UK's merged sector agency | url = https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/alison-johns-named-chief-executive-uks-merged-sector-agency | work = Times Higher Education | date = 11 September 2017 | access-date = 1 January 2018}}</ref>
She is also a past president of the Association of University Administrators.<ref name="Uni_UK">{{cite web | title = Chief Executive-designate appointed to lead new HE sector agency | url = http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/news/Pages/Chief-Executive-designate-appointed-to-lead-new-HE-sector-agency.aspx | website = universitiesuk.ac.uk | publisher = Universities UK | date = 11 September 2017 | access-date = 1 January 2018}}</ref>
In 2024, she is also a non-executive member of Court at the University of St Andrews.<ref>[https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/governance/court/standing-committees/ University of St Andrews website, ''Standing Committees'', retrieved 19 September, 2024]</ref>
== Education == {{Portal|Biography}} Johns has a masters in management learning from Lancaster University where she studied part-time in the 1990s.<ref name="LFHE_UK" /><ref name="THE_interview">{{cite news | title = Interview with Alison Johns | url = https://www.timeshighereducation.com/people/interview-alison-johns | work = Times Higher Education | date = 21 September 2017 | access-date = 2 January 2018}}</ref>
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