Dr Anna Valero is a member of the Council of Economic Advisers to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves. She is on a leave of absence from the LSE where she was a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), Director of the CEP's Growth Programme, Deputy Director of the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) and an Associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change. Her research is focused on the drivers of productivity and innovation in firms and regions, and in particular the role of skills and universities in explaining differences in economic performance. She also works on UK growth policy more broadly, with a particular focus on policies for environmentally sustainable and inclusive growth.