Roisin Currie grew up in Glasgow and graduated from Strathclyde University having read Business Law and Business Management. She embarked on a career with Asda, joining its Graduate Programme during the era of Archie Norman and Allan Leighton.
She spent 20 years in various roles and locations across the UK, including Head of Reward, Retail People Director and then latterly as Distribution People Director based in Leeds.
Roisin left to join Greggs in 2010 as Group People Director, becoming Retail Operations and People Director in 2017, and then Retail and Property Director in 2021, before being appointed to Chief Executive in May 2022.
Roisin is Chair of the Employers Forum for Reducing Re-offending – a voluntary role working with the Ministry for Justice and New Futures Network encouraging employers to give people a second chance to change their lives having been through the Criminal Justice System.
Roisin was instrumental in the conception of Greggs’ ‘Fresh Start’ employability programme, designed to help encourage and support people leaving prison into paid employment within Greggs. Roisin is also a trustee of the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme.
Roisin on the Lens
GREGGS and PwC: Putting business at the heart of communities is essential for everyone
Every month, The Lens: UK Responsible Business Podcast brings together a global business leader and an emerging future leader for an open and unscripted conversation. It will challenge the way you think about responsible business.
In the March 2024 Lens episode, Roisin joined our host Sarah Travers is and Jessica Garbett, Senior Manager, Workforce Consulting Team, PwC to explore how putting business at the heart of communities is essential for everyone. They also discuss some of the tough issues out there such as employing those who have a criminal conviction and how businesses are literally stepping up to the plate to address food poverty.
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Roisin Currie at the 2025 Leadership Assembly
The Leadership Assembly 2025 brought together more than 100 senior leaders from businesses across the UK to discuss key insights from the State of the Nation 2025 Report and shape priorities for business-led action.
In this video, Roisin highlights the power of meeting partners in one of our key leadership programmes, The King’s Seeing is Believing, and what a privilege it was to lead The King’s Seeing is Believing visit in Glasgow – her home city.