Teacher and adviser conference 2024

Vanessa is the Chief Executive of University Alliance (UA) a mission group within the higher education sector representing leading professional and technical universities. The universities she works with specialise in working with industry and employers. Vanessa joined University Alliance in March 2019 from UK Sport, the government’s elite sport body where she had been the Director of Commercial and Communications. During her 7 years at UK Sport, Vanessa worked on four Olympic and Paralympic, Summer and Winter Games including the Games hosted in London. Vanessa began her career in the Civil Service, where she worked in various government agencies and central government departments including the Employment Service, Department for Education & Employment and latterly the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.