Ali (Alison) Jarvis
Ali is a freelance consultant and coach specialising in leadership, strategic change management and equality with organisations in the public, private and non-profit sectors. She is also an independent assessor for the Office of the Commissioner for Public appointments (OCPAS) in Scotland, and a Board member of NHS Health Scotland.
Until Autumn 2007 Ali was Director of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) in Scotland responsible for delivering a strategic approach to racial equality in policy development, the law and public education programmes. She also lead the work of the CRE's Welsh and English regional offices and their community engagement and grant-making functions.
Before joining the CRE, Ali was Director of Stonewall in Scotland working on legal equality and social justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. Major advances during this time were made in public health, education and social attitudes as well as in the achievement of civil partnership legislation.
Ali was directly engaged with the process of developing the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission in the 4 years leading up to its opening in 2007 and has been involved in many other cross-Equalities Groups and initiatives in the UK and internationally to ensure that joined up approaches are used to advance a fairer society.
Prior to 2000 Ali spent 12 years in the private sector holding senior management positions in marketing, human resources and strategy for a number of large multi-national companies focusing on organisational change management, leadership and diversity.
Ali's appointment to SFC runs from 17 November 2008 to 16 November 2012.