Dr Anna Valero is the Director of the Growth Programme and a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance; Deputy Director of the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) and an Associate of the Grantham Research Institute. In 2024-2025 she served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers to the Chancellor Rachel Reeves. She previously sat on the Office for Budget Responsibility’s advisory panel and was a member of the Economic Advisory Council set up by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt.