Professor Baroness Alison Wolf CBE

Biography

Baroness Alison Wolf CBE was a Non-Executive Director at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology from April 2023 to April 2024.

Alison is the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King’s College London. She sits as a cross-bench peer (Baroness Wolf of Dulwich) in the UK House of Lords. She specialises in the relationship between education and the labour market. She was the founding Chair of Governors of King’s College London Mathematics School, and remains a governor and vice-chair.

Alison served in the Number 10 Policy Unit, as part-time adviser on skills and workforce to the UK Prime Minister, from February 2020 to February 2023. She was a panel member for the ‘Augar Review’: the independent Review of Post-18 Education and Funding chaired by Sir Philip Augar, which reported in 2019. In March 2011 she completed the Wolf Report which led to major reforms in vocational education for 14- to 18-year-olds, and she was also a member of the Sainsbury Review which led to the creation of T-levels.