Ruby McGregor-Smith

Ruby McGregor-Smith joined our Board of Trustees in June 2017. She is a portfolio Non-Executive Director and Advisory Director, with current positions at the Department of Education and Bath University, and she was previously Chief Executive of MITIE Group plc, the strategic outsourcing company, employing over 65,000 people predominantly in the UK.

Ruby joined MITIE in 2002 and was appointed CEO in 2007. She is one of a small number of women who have held the position of Chief Executive in the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 and is the first Asian woman to be appointed in such a role within that group of companies.

Until recently Ruby was also an Independent Non-Executive Director of PageGroup, having been appointed to its board in May 2007. She chaired its Audit Committee, was a Member of Nomination and Remuneration Committees and was also latterly their Senior Independent Director. PageGroup has 35 years expertise in professional services recruitment and currently employs more than 5,300 people in over 160 offices and 34 countries worldwide.

Ruby is a member of the Women’s Business Council (previously as Chair) and a Member of the European Committee for Internal Markets at the House of Lords. She is responsible for the Independent Report to the UK Government on Race in the Workplace, published in February 2017.

In November 2016 she gave a keynote address at our 'Ethnic Inequalities at Work' round-table conference.