Alison nimmo biography

Dame Alison Nimmo DBE is a Scottish Chartered Surveyor who was chief executive of The Crown Estate, from 2012 to 2019.
Alison is an experienced property professional and business leader with over 30 years of delivering sustainable urban regeneration and transformation across.
Alison Nimmo is the first woman to lead the Crown Estate.

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Dame Alison Nimmo DBE

Alison Nimmo joined the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Board as a Non-Executive Director in April 2021. She continued this role with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities from September 2021, and was formally appointed as Lead Non-Executive Director for the department in December 2022.

Alison is an experienced property professional and business leader with over 30 years of delivering sustainable urban regeneration and transformation across many parts of the UK. She is an independent Non-Executive at Cadogan and Thomas White Oxford, a commissioner of The Royal Commission 1851, Chair of MACE group’s Advisory Board and a member of Imperial College London’s Property Committee.

Alison has served in a number of other public sector roles, including Chief Executive of The Crown Estate; 8 years helping to win and subsequently deliver London 2012 as a Director in the Olympic Delivery Authority; and leading major city centre regeneration projects in Manchester and Sheffield. She has also been on the Boards of the UK Gree

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The former Welsh schoolgirl who now oversees a property portfolio worth £13 billion

Her job is to make money for the Treasury and Royal family from an enormous, ancient and varied estate worth £13 billion.

Alison Nimmo is chief executive of the Crown Estate, a body which belongs to the reigning monarch 'in right of The Crown'. So you could say the Queen, as head of state, is effectively her boss.

It's been some journey to the top of an organisation which owns a remarkable amount of property which includes Regent Street in London and the Gwynt y Mor wind farm off the north coast of Wales.

In Wales, the Crown Estate also owns 66,000 acres of common land, Tintern Abbey, quarries and 1,287 miles of Welsh coastline, to name just a part of its portfolio here.

Ms Nimmo has come a long way from her school days at Bishop Gore in Swansea to what she calls the best job in property.

She was born in Scotland but raised in Wales. After graduating from Manchester University, her first job was as a planning officer with Westminster Council in 1986. She then worked

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The Queen appoints Chief Executive of the Crown Estate

The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Alison Nimmo CBE, FRICS, as the new Chief Executive of the Crown Estate. Alison will take up the position from 1 January 2012, taking over from Roger Bright CB who steps down at the end of the year.

Biographical Notes

Alison is currently Director of Design and Regeneration at the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) where she has, for the past 5 years, held responsibility for delivering the overall design and early delivery of most of the venues, Olympic Park and long term legacy for the London 2012 games.

Alison’s previous roles have included: a central role in the London 2012 bid team and interim Director who led the establishment of the Olympic Delivery Authority; Chief Executive of Sheffield One, a seminal city-centre regeneration programme for Sheffield; and Project Director of Manchester Millennium Ltd responsible for the regeneration of Manchester city centre following the terrorist bombing in 1996.

She is also a non-executive director of Berkeley Group and a v