Alison Baptiste CBE
Biography
Alison Baptiste is the Director of Function, Insight, Portfolio and Assurance at the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA).
Alison has extensive strategic and operational project and programme leadership experience gained both in private and public sectors. As Director of Strategy and Investment at the Environment Agency, she led both infrastructure and transformation projects and held senior operational delivery and emergency response roles reporting to COBR. Alison is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Alison was appointed as Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to the environment in the 2019 New Years Honours.
Director of Function, Insight, Portfolio and Assurance
Leads the Function, Insight, Portfolio and Assurance teams within NISTA, responsible for building project delivery capability in government and creating a world-class project delivery profession.
This includes setting standards for how government delivers projects; developing career pathways and professional accreditation; growing and managing talent; and working to increase diversity and inclusion across the profession. The team also runs the project delivery fast stream and apprenticeship schemes, and development and delivery of project delivery leadership and learning programmes, including the world class Major Projects Leadership Academy.
National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority
Previous roles in government
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Director of Public and Security Services
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Director of Public and Security Services