England’s Premier League has announced that Alison Brittain will become its new chair after clubs voted unanimously in favor of her appointment. She will replace interim chair Peter McCormick in early 2023, becoming the first female chair in the history of the world’s biggest domestic football competition. Brittain currently serves as chief executive of hospitality firm Whitbread, one of the U.K.’s oldest public companies. Before joining Whitbread in 2015, she was a financial services executive and held senior roles at Barclays, Santander and Lloyds Banking Group, where she led the retail banking division. She has been a member of the last three Prime Minister’s Advisory Boards. Brittain was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire), the highest ranking Order of the British Empire award, in 2019.

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