Angela Morrison

Angela joined Cancer Research UK in April 2021 as Chief Operating Officer and leads the Charity's finance, people and technology teams, working across the organisation to ensure we have appropriate governance and an operating model that enables us to be as effective and efficient as we can at delivering on the mission to beat cancer.

Angela has extensive experience as a commercial executive, most recently at Debenhams where she led their retail, supply chain and technology teams and prior to that Direct Line Group, Sainsburys and Asda/Walmart. In these organisations she led and managed both technical and business change, and as part of the broader executive led the organisations through their cultural transformations.

She was the executive sponsor for Corporate Social Responsibility at both Debenhams & Direct Line and for a number of years sat on the Advisory Board for The Tech Partnership (previously E-skills), working with peers and counterparts in the information technology (IT) service sector to improve IT skills in education and the workplace.

Angela is a Non Executive Board Member of HM Land Registry, where she sits on the Audit Committee, and provides support to the operations, transformation and technology teams.

Angela has a degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Bristol.