Ali Jarvis

Director of Countries, Regions and Communities - Commission for Racial Equality

Ali is Director of Countries, Regions and Communities (CRC) for the Commission for Racial Equality and in addition to this GB-wide role is also Director of the CRE’s Scotland Office.

Ali is the Scottish representative on the Cabinet office / DTI reference group for the Equalities review and the Discrimination Law review that are being undertaken to inform the shape of the forthcoming CEHR and a possible Single equality Act. She is also currently Convenor of the Scottish Equalities Coordinating Group (ECG)

Before joining the CRE, Ali spent 5 years in the voluntary sector with Stonewall setting up a new Scottish office to further the achievement of legal equality and social justice for LGBT people.

Prior to this Ali held senior management positions in marketing and human resources for a FTSE 100 company of 50,000 employees. In the last 3 years of her 10 year career there, she was co-developer and Director of a consultancy unit responsible for a worldwide programme of strategy development and organisational change-management working in over 30 different countries.

Ali has also worked as a freelance consultant with organisations in the public, private and non-profit sectors assisting them with the creation and implementation of sustainable strategy, structures for governance and the subsequent development of their human capital to deliver against this.

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