Email: pauline.howie@aace.org.uk
Pauline worked in the NHS and Scottish Government for over 30 years, 27 of them at Board level as either Finance Director or Chief Executive. She was appointed as Chief Executive of the Scottish Ambulance Service in 2009.
Pauline was educated in Scotland and started her career in London where she qualified as a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. She returned to Scotland and worked in Greater Glasgow in a variety of senior finance roles. After a secondment to the Scottish Government as Head of NHS Trust Finance, in 1996 she was appointed as Finance and Planning Director to the State Hospital at Carstairs.
She joined the Scottish Ambulance Service in 2000 as Director of Finance, Planning and Performance. In 2006, she became Chief Operating Officer and was promoted to Chief Executive in 2009.
Since then, she has worked collaboratively to transform service delivery, improve outcomes and patient experience, adopting innovative practice and technology and investing in workforce and cultural development.
She was awarded an OBE in 2015, a CBE in 2024 and the Institute of Directors Scotland and UK Public Service Director of the Year 2019.
