Baroness Ruby Mcgregor Smith

Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith CBE

Advisory Committee Member

Experience:

Ruby is the Chair of Mind Gym PLC and the President of the British Chambers of Commerce. She also chairs the Air Operators Association, is a Non-Executive Director at the Department of Education and the Tideway Tunnel. Ruby was the Chief Executive of MITIE Group PLC. She is one of a small number of women who have held the position of Chief Executive in the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 and is the first Asian woman to be appointed in such a role within that group of companies. She was recognised as a top 50 female world business leader by the FT in 2013.

Ruby is a member of the House of Lords, having been granted a Life Peerage in 2015. She is responsible for the Independent Report to the UK Government on Race in the Workplace published in February 2017. She was the Chair of the UK Government’s Women’s Business Council between 2012 and 2016 and a Business Ambassador for the UK from 2012 to 2019. She was appointed by the UK Government to be the In - Work Progression Commissioner in 2020.