Heidi Fraser-Krauss
CEO
Jisc
Jisc is a not-for-profit membership organisation that provides the UK universities, colleges and skills sectors with a shared digital infrastructure. Fraser-Krauss studied psychology and management studies at the University of Glasgow, and started her career as a researcher studying how communication in the workplace supports innovation.
She has since held a variety of Board level leadership roles in higher education, most recently as executive director of corporate services at the University of Sheffield. In Sheffield she had strategic responsibility for all the core corporate services including IT, HR, Communications and Estates and Facilities. Prior to Sheffield, she spent eight years at the University of York, where, she held a variety of roles including deputy registrar and director of corporate and information services. Over the years her work has covered high-performance computing for research, library and archives, planning and strategic change, and leading the technology change team at the University of St Andrews.
She was a member of UCAS council for eight years, chair of Universities and College Information Systems Association (UCISA), and chair of the Russell Universities Group IT Directors (RUGIT). In 2017 she was named as female CIO of the year by Computing Magazine. She recently became a governor of York College my local FE provider.