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SPEAKER

Alison Barrett

Country Director, British Council India

Ms. Alison leads all operations across Arts & Culture, Education and English Programmes for British Council, India. She has worked for the British Council for over 25 years in a variety of country, regional and global level roles in our Teaching, Examinations and Cultural Engagement departments building cultural and educational connections between the UK and our network overseas. Most of her career has been spent in the Asia-Pacific region including in India where she was based for 20 years between 1997-2016 so returning as Country Director is a great honour. From 2020-2022, she led the British Council’s Climate Connection – a global programme and platform for dialogue and action, connecting young people, policy makers and sector specialists from the UK and over 200 countries together to tackle the climate emergency through arts & culture, education, and English.