As Projects and Development Director, Alison leads the Projects and Carbon and Innovation disciplines at Anglo American.

Prior to joining Anglo American in 2023, Alison was CEO of AWE plc from 2020- 2023, an organisation with a critical mission to support the defence and security of the UK. Alison joined AWE in 2005 and fulfilled a number of senior roles, delivering multi-billion dollar infrastructure projects and technology programmes and developing capabilities and products that support the UK's nuclear defence programme. Prior to AWE, Alison spent 14 years at Halcrow, the global engineering consultancy, managing a wide variety of capital projects in the UK and overseas in both the public and private sectors.

A champion for diversity in science and engineering, Alison was voted as one of the top ten most ‘Influential Female Engineers in the UK and Europe’ by the Financial Times and Inclusive Boards in 2019. Alison is a Chartered Civil Engineer and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She is also a non-executive director of Kier Group plc and chair of its safety, health and environment committee