Alexandra (Ali) is a director of The Ellis Campbell Group and trustee of The Ellis Campbell Foundation. Attending meetings has been part of her life since her teens and she takes great pride in seeing first-hand how our grants can make real changes to people’s lives. Her daughter Izzy is also now actively involved in some of the projects that we are supporting.

Ali is married to James and is a very proud mother of their three children.

After spending a year in Paris at the age of 18 she worked in London for Thorp and May Ltd before taking a Montessori Course and subsequently working as a teacher at Young England Kindergarten in Pimlico for 5 years then at Garden House for a further 2 years. She is still in touch with many of the children she used to teach, many of whom are now married with their own children! Ali recently undertook took a yearlong Art Course at Chelsea Fine Arts which has rekindled her love of painting and drawing after studying it at school.

Ali is usually found surrounded by mountains of fabrics and interior design magazines which is a true passion of hers and completed an Interior Design Course at KLC in Chelsea Harbour.

As a family, they are very lucky to be able to spend wonderful holidays in the Isle of Wight and Scotland and Ali loves nothing more than hanging out with her siblings, Jamie and Laura, and all her gorgeous nieces and nephews.