Baroness McGregor-Smith CBE

Ruby McGregor-Smith was a non-executive board member of the Department for Education between December 2015 and January 2022. She is a Chartered Accountant who qualified with BDO and started her career in outsourcing at Serco Group plc where she held a number of senior financial and commercial roles. Ruby was Chief Executive of Mitie Group from 2007-2016, having joined the business as Group Financial Director in 2002 and she then became Chief Operating Officer in 2005.

She now has a portfolio career and her roles include Non Executive Chair at AirportsUK, Deputy Chair and Senior Independent Director at Tideway London, Independent Non Executive Director at Thales and Independent Non Executive Director at Everyman Media Group PLC.

She was awarded a life peerage in 2015 and is a member of the EU Markets Committee at the House of Lords. She was awarded a CBE in 2012 for services to business and diversity in business. The McGregor-Smith Review on Race in the Workplace, commissioned by the UK Government, was published in 2017.