Alison Horner


Alison Jane Horner is a British businesswoman, and the CEO of the Asian arm of Tesco, the supermarket chain.

Early life

Alison Jane Horner was born in June 1966. She earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Manchester, and an MBA from Manchester Business School.

Career

Horner joined Tesco as a personnel manager in 1999 and has been on Tesco's executive committee since 2011.
In October 2013, Horner became a founding member of The Guardian's Women in Leadership network.
Horner was Tesco' chief people officer of Tesco, until May 2018, when she was promoted to chief executive of Tesco's Asia business.

Carillion

Horner was a non-executive director of Carillion from December 2013, chairing the remuneration committee from June 2014. As of 30 December 2016 her basic compensation was £61,000. After the company went into liquidation in January 2018, Horner was one of the non-executive directors who gave evidence to the House of Commons Business and Work and Pensions select committees on 6 February 2018. In the final report of the Parliamentary Inquiry, published on 16 May 2018, Horner was criticised by MPs; the report concluded: