Anica Alvarez Nishio
Board Work
Anica serves as Chair, Vice Chair,
Non Executive Director (NED) and
Advisory Board Member for
organisations across
health, technology, academia,
policing and veterans' affairs.
She specialises in values-led innovation,
focusing on risk management
and stakeholder engagement
for complex organisations.
Current roles include:
Non Executive Director and
Vice Chair Audit and Risk Committee,
Morley College,
research projects at the
University of Oxford
and the University of Kent,
Thames Valley Police's
Ethics Think Tank,
sitting on an
advisory body to the
UK Ministry of Defence
and various commercial roles.
She previously has held roles with
the National Institute of Health
and Care Excellence (NICE),
where she was Vice Chair of the
Quality Standards Committee,
NIHR’s Programme Grants for
Applied Research and the
Independent Monitoring Board
of HMP Erlestoke.
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She particularly enjoys bringing together
high-performing teams to deliver
far more than
the sum of their parts.
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'Anica has remarkable expertise in advising on governance both in the voluntary sector and in her professional world ... [she] has made a genuine difference and is highly regarded at the highest levels of VAPC
and by many influential civil servants.'
-- Chair, VAPC SW
'I am very proud of what we are achieving ... You have brought it to life'
-- Director, NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research
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Photo: Stacey Mutkin