title: Ashley Steel
text: # Ashley Steel
  
  Ashley Caroline Steel (born 1959) was the vice-chair and global head of transport for KPMG (retired in the summer 2014). Currently she holds non-executive roles on the boards of National Express, GoCo and the BBC. She has been named "one of the UK's most influential gay people".
  
  Steel has a PhD in Management from Henley.
  
  Steel was asked to judge the Independent on Sunday's Pink List in 2010, but declined to do so.
  
  ## Recognition
  
  * The Independent on Sunday Pink List 2013 (75)
  * The Guardian World Pride Power List 2013 (78)
  * The Independent on Sunday Pink List 2012 (44)
  * The Guardian World Pride Power List 2012 (74)
  * Pride London Power List 2011 (81)
  * The Independent on Sunday Pink List 2008 (66)
  * The Independent on Sunday Pink List 2007 (50)
  * The Independent on Sunday Pink List 2006 (31)
  