Alison Baptiste CBE
Biography
Alison Baptiste is the Director of Public and Security Services at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority.
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 Public and Security Services
In Alison’s current role as Director of Public and Security Services she is responsible for setting the overall strategic direction and leadership for the delivery of the Government’s critical projects and programmes, for the departments within the Public and Security Services sector that include MoD, MoJ, HO, DHSC, DfE, HMRC, DWP, NCA, ONS and CO.
Alison leads a team providing deep project delivery and technical expertise to departments on the Government’s Major Projects Portfolio to ensure projects are set up for success and to drive improved project delivery.