Anna is head of the Education & Arts and Culture units at Policy Exchange, responsible for defining research priorities and managing all projects in these areas.

Before joining Policy Exchange, Anna worked as a journalist for several years and most recently spent two years as the director of Agora, a think tank on higher education.

She has a first class degree in English from Manchester University.

Anna Fazackerley will be participating in the League tables: flawed rankings or key benchmarks? session.