Shirley Cramer CBE has a wealth of public health and education expertise. She served as the Chief Executive of the Royal Society for Public Health from 2013 to 2020, during which time she held positions of Vice Chair of the Public Health System Group in England and Chair of People in UK Public Health; a cross-government advisory board on the future of the public health workforce. She is Chair of the Rare Dementia Support Group’s Advisory Board at University College London and chairs the Re-birth Project for the Royal College of Midwives. Shirley also gives her time and expertise as a trustee of Alzheimer’s Research UK.

With more than twenty years of leadership experience Shirley has been a voluntary sector leader in both the UK and the USA, working in New York where she was CEO for a national education organisation. She was also CEO of Dyslexia Action for over a decade and a board member of the Learning and Skills Council. Shirley was awarded a CBE for services to education in 2009.

Alongside her work with Atalanta, she is currently the Non-Executive Director for the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission.