Alix Green completed her B.A and M.Phil. in History at Clare College, Cambridge.

Since leaving university, she has undertaken a variety of roles centred around providing specialist advisory services to senior management teams. She was appointed at Hertfordshire in 2007 and leads on the university's policy and public affairs activity as well as lecturing in School of Humanities.

Her research focuses on the use of history in policy development. She was asked by Sir Tim Wilson to act as principal adviser to the review of university-industry collaboration announced in the 2011 HE White Paper.