Leading expert on public policy, including the areas of employment, labour market and skills, Clare McNeil, appointed as Timewise Chief Executive
Tuesday, 29 April 2025: Timewise, a national non-profit dedicated to improving access to fair, secure and flexible work, has appointed Clare McNeil as its new Chief Executive since its current CEO Claire Campbell made the decision to step down earlier in the year. She takes up her new role immediately.
Before joining Timewise, Clare McNeil was an associate director and researcher at IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research) for a decade, gaining a reputation as a leading expert on public policy, including the areas of employment and skills. As well as having worked in government as an adviser to the Cabinet Office, McNeil is co-founder of Workwhile, an organisation working with employers to create apprenticeships and improve work quality.
McNeil will lead the award-winning organisation as it embarks on an ambitious new three-year strategy to grow our impact and reach with employers and influence with policymakers to create healthier working lives. The new strategy will be launched later in the year and will build on Timewise ground-breaking achievements since it was founded in 2005.
The recognition from employers and the new government in the Employment Rights Bill of the importance of workplace flexibility for employee health, wellbeing and productivity is in large part due to Timewise’s efforts over the past twenty years. Yet inequalities persist with millions more people still searching for good quality part-time and flexible jobs, stable schedules and autonomy and respect at work.
Current CEO Claire Campbell has played a vital role in steering the organisation over the past two years and will remain with the organisation as Associate Consultancy Director to work with clients through our employer practice. Claire took up the CEO post in 2023, having originally joined Timewise in 2016 and grown our employer consultancy team.
Kevin Green, Timewise Chair and Chief People Officer at First Bus, said:
“We are delighted to welcome Clare McNeil as Chief Executive of Timewise to take the organisation forward.
“With huge shifts taking place in the world of work and the government seeking to grow the economy by ‘making work pay’, the work of Timewise is more important than ever in fighting for a healthier, more equitable labour market.
“We have had extraordinary impact over the past two decades, yet we need to reach more employers if we’re to address some of the biggest challenges we face as a country – from ensuring more people can experience the health benefits of good work, to tackling workforce shortages and raising productivity.
“Clare’s impressive track record in thought leadership, social innovation, partnership-building and advocacy will put us in an excellent position to achieve this and much more in the years ahead.“
Clare McNeil, newly appointed Chief Executive, said:
“I am thrilled to be leading Timewise into its third decade and to take forward its pioneering work. Our mission to create healthier working lives is all about having greater security, choice and control at work. Yet on too many of these measures, work – particularly in the frontline sectors where Timewise has led groundbreaking pilots with employers – is moving in the opposite direction.
“This government has rightly put dignity and respect at work at the heart of its mission to grow the economy and Get Britain Working. Timewise’s world leading innovation, expertise, evidence and action can help achieve this goal and I am excited to work with our Board, fantastic team, partners and funders to do so.“
For more information please contact Beth Allan, Marketing Manager: beth.allan@timewise.co.uk
