Dame Alison Nimmo DBE

Biography

Alison Nimmo joined the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Board as a Non-Executive Director in April 2021.  She continued this role with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities from September 2021, and was formally appointed as Lead Non-Executive Director for the department in December 2022.

Alison is an experienced property professional and business leader with over 30 years of delivering sustainable urban regeneration and transformation across many parts of the UK. She is an independent Non-Executive at Cadogan and Thomas White Oxford, a commissioner of The Royal Commission 1851, Chair of MACE group’s Advisory Board and a member of Imperial College London’s Property Committee.

Alison has served in a number of other public sector roles, including Chief Executive of The Crown Estate; 8 years helping to win and subsequently deliver London 2012 as a Director in the Olympic Delivery Authority; and leading major city centre regeneration projects in Manchester and Sheffield. She has also been on the Boards of the UK Green Building Council, Berkeley Group Plc, St Modwen Properties, Imperial College London and the CBI.

She was made a Dame in 2019 for services to the public sector and services to the Exchequer.