Gillian Guy CBE is a British administrator who is Chief Executive Officer of Citizens Advice, a charity organization employing 7,000. She joined in 2010 from the charity Victim Support. She is also a non-practitioner member of the Banking Standards Board.
Gillian Guy has been Chief Executive Officer of three organizations, as well as a board member of four.
In 1994, she became CEO of London Borough of Ealing, where she spent her early life. She continued working there for 12 years before moving to Victim Support, her first executive role in a charity.
Victim Support, a charity that supports victims of various crimes, hired Gillian Guy in 2006, where she worked for four years. In an interview, Gillian Guy characterized the move from public sector to charitable organization sector: "In the public sector, there was never enough money to do what you wanted; in the charity sector it's the same. It's always about getting more for less." Significantly, Gillian Guy consolidated Victim Support into one charity from a network of seventy-seven, according to The Guardian.
Gillian Guy was hired as the Chief Executive Officer of Citizens Advice in 2010. The charity, a network of independent charities across multiple countries, employs over 21,000 volunteers. In an interview with The Guardian, she noted that her experience at Victim Support prepared her for working cooperatively with the government.