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In October 2019, following a profits warning a few days earlierAlison Cooper announced that she will step down as a CEO once a replacement is found. She is considered the second high profile exit to the company.

In February 2013, she was assessed by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom.

In October 2012, Cooper noted that she and Burberry’s Angela Ahrendts were the only two female CEOs running FTSE 100 Index companies. Cooper is one of only 5 other female CEOs among UK's top 100 companies. Despite this, she has stressed that she does not support the introduction of quotas intended to increase female participation in boardrooms.

Cooper has been a non-executive director of Inchcape plc since July 2009.

She joined Imperial Tobacco in 1999 as group finance manager and was promoted to group financial controller in 2001. She rose to chief operating officer in 2009, before becoming chief executive officer in March 2010. Cooper took over from Gareth Davis, who had held the position for fourteen years. She said at the time, "We need a change in mindset. Tobacco has been traditional in the way it has operated. We want to move from being a tobacco manufacturer to a FMCG [fast-moving consumer goods] company."

Alison Jane Cooper (born 31 March 1966) is a British businesswoman. She is currently the chief executive officer (CEO) of Imperial Brands, the world's fourth-largest tobacco company as measured by market share.