Alexandra Vincent is Chief Executive for Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities and Chief Operating Officer for the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford. Core to Alex’s role is setting the strategy and overseeing the operations of the Schwarzman Centre and it’s cultural and commercial programmes which bring together academics, creatives, business and industry in collaboration and co-creation. Prior to Oxford, Alex was Chief Operating Officer at AHRC where she oversaw the establishment of several multi-million-pound programmes. Alex established the £80m Creative Industries Clusters Programme working with academics and industry to address the challenges facing Creative Industries Sectors. She also oversaw the successful development of AHRC’s first ever infrastructure fund business case, for CoSTAR, a network of labs and facilities for R&D in the Creative Industries, and led the negotiations with Treasury to secure the initial £70m funding.