Biography

Dr Anna Valero is on leave of absence 2024-25, serving as Member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Formerly, 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. 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.

Current areas of research include:

• Innovation and its diffusion: Drivers of the invention and adoption of new technologies or practices at the organisation level.
• Economic impact of universities: Role of universities and human capital in explaining differences in economic performance across firms and regions.
• Sustainable growth/recovery: Economic opportunities in the transition to net zero.

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