Alice Maynard

Dr Alice Maynard CBE began her career in the IT industry working in a range of roles in software development and localisation. Following a stint in the rail industry working on EDI issues, she founded Future Inclusion to help leaders improve organisation performance through inclusive practice.

Alice now has a portfolio of non-executive and business advice roles and is an executive coach/mentor. Through Future Inclusion, she advises a number of businesses, mainly in the public and third sectors.

She currently sits as a NED for the Financial Conduct Authority where she chairs the People Committee, and has just been appointed as Chair Designate and Pro-Chancellor of the University of York Council, taking up the role on 1^st August this year. She is a member of the Government Commercial Office Remuneration Committee.

She recently stood down from HMRC where she chaired the People Committee and was a Board member of Transport for London until 2021.

From 2008 to 2014, Alice led the Board of Scope, the disability charity, rebuilding its financial and management capability.  This led her to join third sector colleagues in establishing the Association of Chairs, to improve performance through better chairing. In 2014 Alice won a Sunday Times Non-Executive Director of the Year award, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of York.  She received a CBE in the 2015 New Year Honours.