Tracey Jessup
Chief Transformation & Resources Officer De Montfort UniversityTracey Jessup is Chief Transformation and Resources Officer at De Montfort University (DMU). She leads, develops and manages comprehensive changes to how the university operates its business, including the delivery of a critical multi-year transformation journey to align technology and campus, people and ways of working.
Prior to joining DMU Tracey had an over twenty-year career in central Government working in policy and digital roles, most recently as Chief Digital and Information Officer of the UK Parliament. Tracey was responsible for the strategic direction of Parliament’s digital offering, transforming ways in which citizens connected with Parliament including building a new website, the delivery and management of parliamentary digital platforms, and providing technology services to Members and staff in Westminster and throughout the UK.
Tracey has featured in the CIO 100 from 2021 to 2025 and in 2024 also won the CIO 100 award for outstanding contribution to the public sector. Tracey is also the winner of the Women in IT Outstanding Contribution Award 2021 awarded for her work leading delivery of the virtual and hybrid Parliament during the Covid-19 pandemic.