Gillian Guy

Dame Gillian Guy DBE is a British administrator who is Chief Executive Officer of Citizens Advice, a charity organisation employing 7,000. She joined in 2010 from the charity Victim Support. She is also a non-practitioner member of the Banking Standards Board.

Guy has been Chief Executive Officer of three organisations, as well as a board member of four.

London Borough of Ealing

In 1994, she became CEO of London Borough of Ealing, where she spent her early life. She continued working there for 12 years before moving to Victim Support, her first executive role in a charity.

Victim Support

Victim Support, a charity that supports victims of various crimes, hired Guy in 2006, where she worked for four years. In an interview, Guy characterized the move from public sector to charitable organization sector: "In the public sector, there was never enough money to do what you wanted; in the charity sector it's the same. It's always about getting more for less."Significantly, She consolidated Victim Support into one charity from a network of seventy-seven, according to The Guardian.

Citizens Advice

Guy was hired as the Chief Executive Officer of Citizens Advice in 2010. The charity, a network of independent charities across multiple countries, employs over 21,000 volunteers. In an interview with The Guardian, she noted that her experience at Victim Support prepared her for working cooperatively with the government.

Already Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), Guy was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to the public and voluntary sectors.