Dr Ann Limb joined gov3 as Vice President e-learning in autumn 2004.  Ann is the former Group Chief Executive of Ufi Ltd, the UK government’s e-flagship responsible for learndirect and UK on line. As well as working as a government adviser here and overseas, Ann also holds a number of public and private sector non-executive directorships. From 2001-2003, Ann was part of the Ministerial Taskforce on ‘Feminising ICT’ and sat on the Board of IT4all. She is a member of the Prime Minister’s Digital Inclusion Panel and sits on David Cameron’s Public Services Improvement Policy Group: Education Committee.
 

Ann spent over 25 years working in the further and adult education sector including 13 years as Principal and Chief Executive of Milton Keynes College (from 1988-1996) and Cambridge Regional College (from 1996-2001).  Ann writes and publishes widely on strategic leadership and corporate culture change and was elected to the National Council of the Institute of Directors in 2006.
 

Since 1998, Ann has been Chair of the National Extension College  and the Helena Kennedy Foundation. She also chairs the British Council Board’s Knowledge and Information Advisory Committee, is Chair of the National Ecumenical Agency in Further Education  and the national charities Student Volunteering England and the Anne Frank Trust UK.

Ann is a non executive director of DRS Data Research and Services plc and also a non executive director of English Partnerships: Milton Keynes Partnership Committee. In July 2005, the Department of Media Culture and Sport appointed Ann as the first Chair of the Legal Deposit Advisory Panel.

Ann sits on the Councils of the University of Surrey and the Open University and is a Trustee on the Board of the Centre for Excellence in Leadership.