Professor Alison Leary MBE FRCN currently holds the position of Professor of Healthcare & Workforce Modelling at London South Bank University and serves as a Senior Consultant to the World Health Organization on Human Resources for Health Group. She has worked across many different industries and her current work focuses on complex systems in healthcare, using non-linear mathematics and data science to improve workforce planning and patient safety, For example, her modelling for inflammatory bowel disease nursing led to a recommended staffing ratio that became a European standard. She was appointed MBE in 2019 by the British government for services to crowd safety in English Football.

She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and the Queen’s Nursing Institute. She was named among the Top 70 women in health in 70 years of the NHS and the recipient of a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to study big data in high-reliability industries