Alison Nimmo

Alison Nimmo CBE (born 25 May 1964) is a Scottish surveyor who is chief executive of the Crown Estate, an organisation with a property portfolio estimated at £10 billion.

Early life

Nimmo was born in Edinburgh[1] but raised in Wales where she attended the Bishop Gore School, Swansea. She is a graduate of Manchester University.[2] After graduation, Nimmo visited Australia and worked in Sydney's planning department.[3]

Career

Nimmo's first job in the U.K. was as a planning officer with Westminster Council from 1986, after which she worked for the surveyors Drivers Jonas followed by KPMG and Manchester council (1996) where she was involved in the regeneration of the city after the IRA bombing of 1996.[2] She worked on the redevelopment of Sheffield town centre for Sheffield One (2000) and was design and regeneration director at the Olympic Delivery Authority from 2006 (interim from 2003).[3]

She became chief executive of the Crown Estate on 1 January 2012, taking over from Roger Bright.[4] The Crown Estate has a portfolio of property and related assets estimated at £10 billion.[2]

Nimmo is a non-executive director of housebuilders Berkeley Group Holdings and a visiting professor at Sheffield Hallam University. She is a fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.[5]

Awards and honours

Nimmo was awarded the Royal Town Planning Institute Gold Medal for services to town planning and sustainability. In 2004 she was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE).[5]

Family

Nimmo is divorced with no children.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Alison Nimmo CBE. BBC Woman's Hour. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "By royal appointment, I spend my days playing Monopoly for real", Oliver Shah, The Sunday Times, Business section, 5 April 2015, p. 6.
  3. 1 2 Projects abound for Alison Nimmo, the town planner in charge of the Queen’s property. James Ashton, London Evening Standard, 22 February 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  4. ↑ Interview: Alison Nimmo, Crown Estate chief executive. Julia Kollewe, The Guardian, 21 June 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  5. 1 2 The Board. The Crown Estate. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
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