Biography
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.
Current areas of research include:
- Industrial strategy: Identifying areas of comparative advantages and informing sectoral policies for growth.
- Innovation and its diffusion: Drivers of the invention and adoption of new technologies or practices at the organisation level.
- Sustainable growth: Economic opportunities in the transition to net zero.
- Economic impact of universities: Role of universities and human capital in explaining differences in economic performance across firms and regions.
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