Allison Ogden-Newton OBE

Allison joined Keep Britain Tidy as Chief Executive in 2015.

She appears regularly in national and local media, on TV and radio and at conferences and events, to discuss a breadth of issues, from fly-tipping to green spaces.

Allison is an experienced charity professional and social entrepreneur, having worked as Chief Executive at World Child Cancer and Social Enterprise London. She was founder of breakthrough social value think-tank, The Transition Institute.

Allison has a master’s degree from Warwick Business School and is a graduate of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She has acted as an equal value advisor to the Equal Opportunities Commission and served as a member of the government's Department of Innovation and Skills, Women’s Enterprise Taskforce.

She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a visiting fellow of Northampton University, a board member of the British Cleaning Council and Wildlife and Countryside Link and chair of the Plastics Action Steering Group led by Thames21.

Allison was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours 2019/20 for her services to the environment and social enterprise.