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<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Pink List in 2010, but declined to do so.