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 Vice Chair
of the National Institute of Health
and Care Excellence (NICE)'s Quality
Standards Advisory Committee, research
projects at the Universities of Oxford
and Kent, Thames Valley Police's Ethics
Think Tank, sitting as a NED for an
advisory body to the UK Ministry of
Defence, and various commercial roles.
She previously has held roles with
NIHR’s Programme Grants for Applied
Research, Health Education England, the Independent Monitoring Board of HMP Erlestoke and the British Research
Council Partnership for
Health, Wealth and Innovation.
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She particularly enjoys mentoring senior executives and 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