Rebecca George Biography

Rebecca is an independent advisor to the UK Public Sector.  Her career has been defined by digital transformation and leveraging data - and for the last 20 years she has worked with organisations across the Public Sector.  She has extensive experience of IT enabled change programmes and operational efficiency - improving the way in which people, organisations, processes and systems work together.

She has held various roles in Skills Reform since 2019 including the launch and initial rollout of T-Levels; and delivery of Skills Reform of the FE sector.  This focusses on technical and vocational training and lifelong learning. She was an advisor to the Department of Education for 5 years on Employer Engagement and putting employers at the heart of Skills Reform.  She is now a NED on the DfE Board.  Rebecca is also a Non-Executive Director for the Metropolitan Police. 

Until June 2021 Rebecca was a Managing Partner at Deloitte, leading their Public Sector practice across 25 countries in Europe and the Middle East.  She was responsible for the work Deloitte did across the Public Sector including Health and Social Care, Education, Transport, Defence, National Security, Justice and Home Affairs, and Central and Local Government.  She joined Deloitte as a Partner in 2006 after spending nearly 20 years at IBM in a variety of roles including sales, business process reengineering, and HR; in the UK, EMEA and globally.

From 2011 to 2016 Rebecca led Deloitte’s Public Health practice in the UK and globally.  She worked with national health organisations and health providers. She specialised in transformation enabled by IT, including electronic patient record systems, population health infrastructure, and health data collection and processing.  Through her career, her delivery experience has been mainly in transformation enabled by IT, but she has also led engagements in Machinery of Government changes, setting up new Agencies, and complex programmes involving many organisations and senior stakeholder engagement. 

Rebecca has been involved in activities to increase the participation of Women in the IT industry since the mid-1990s.  She is a Past President and former Trustee of the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, where she is a Fellow.  She is a Liveryman at the Worshipful Company of IT. She has served on the Board of the City Mental Health Alliance and was a Mental Health Champion at Deloitte for several years.  She has mentored and coached a wide variety of people over more than twenty years, including many of women and ethnic minorities.

She was honoured with an OBE in 2006 for work she did for the Government on Sustainable Communities, and with a CBE in 2023 for her work to increase the participation of women in the IT Profession.  Academically, her first Degree was in English Language and Literature at Oxford, and her MSc was in Broadcasting at Boston University USA, specialising in Cable TV and Satellite Systems. 

Rebecca lives near Taunton and is married with two sons aged 33 and 31 and a granddaughter.  Her husband gave up work as an academic in 1995 when they moved to the USA.  He qualified as a lawyer a few years ago.