Anna leads The Leverhulme Trust, an independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship which has the potential to generate new ideas and research breakthroughs that benefit society. Before joining the Trust, Anna was a Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, Professor of Economics of Education at the UCL Institute of Education and Research Fellow at LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance. Her research focused on issues of equity and value in education, particularly the relationship between educational achievement and social mobility, and the role played by education and skills in the economy and wider society.