Anica Alvarez Nishio
Board Work
Anica specialises in values-led innovation
within complex highly regulated multi-stakeholder organisations.
She has served as Chair, Vice Chair and Member of organisations across health, technology, academia, the penal system and veterans’ affairs. Current roles include Vice Chair of NICE’s Quality Standards Advisory Committee, membership of NIHR’s Programme Grants for Applied Research, research projects at the Universities of Oxford, and sitting as a NED for an advisory body to the UK Ministry of Defence.
She previously has held roles with Health Education England, the Independent Monitoring Board of HMP Erlestoke, and the British Research Council Partnership for Health, Wealth and Innovation.
Her areas of focus are:
• Values-led risk management
• Leveraging stakeholders
• Effective and ethical
deployment of technology
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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