Roxanne joined Pearson in early 2011 as the Managing Director for Higher Education Awards, a new division set up to enable Pearson to extend its education provision into the development and delivery of degree programmes and other higher education awards.

Just prior to joining Pearson Roxanne spent 10 years at BPP University College of Professional Studies (the first commercial provider to obtain its own degree awarding powers in the UK), and was an executive director on the board of directors there with responsibility for teaching, learning and innovation.

She originally graduated with a BA and an LLB from the University of Sydney and worked as a solicitor and an in-house corporate lawyer in Australia before moving to the UK. She has an LLM in Intellectual and Cultural Property from UCL and is currently studying for a doctorate in higher education management at the University of Bath.