Education Endowment Foundation:Our people

Professor Becky Francis CBE (FBA, FAcSS, PhD) is currently on secondment from the EEF to lead the government’s curriculum and assessment review.

Anne-Laure is responsible for the operational delivery of EEF’s mission and objectives, maximising the impact of EEF’s resources.

Chris is providing interim leadership to the organisation as co-CEO.

Emily is providing interim leadership to the organisation as co-CEO.

Dame Christine Gilbert DBE is providing additional support as Executive Chair while Becky is on secondment.

Igraine (Iggy) leads the EEF’s Programmes team and is the EEF’s Designated Safeguarding Lead. 

Kath leads the EEF’s post-16 work, building and mobiling the evidence base to support improved outcomes at this crucial stage of education.

Aoife manages a range of programmes and leads the EEF’s programmes work on the early years, literacy and teacher recruitment and retention.

Jamila leads EEF’s programme work on two themes: Learning Behaviours and Implementation.

Katie manages a range of programmes and leads the EEF’s programmes work in Science.

Toby manages a range of EEF-funded programmes.

Daniella manages a range of programmes and leads the EEF’s programmes work on writing.

Eleanore manages a range of EEF-funded programmes.

Beverley manages a range of EEF-funded programmes and leads the EEF’s programmes work on physical development in the early years.

Eloise oversees the CRM system, which is used by several teams to monitor the progress of research projects and their finances.

Pam manages a range of EEF-funded programmes.

Nikhil supports EEF’s data activities, enhancing Salesforce operations, ensuring data integrity, and providing data-driven insights.

Ellen leads the development and implementation of the EEF’s strategy for supporting project recruitment.

Hannah manages a range of EEF-funded programmes.

Becca manages the day-to-day development of our post-16 work.

Michelle supports the recruitment of educational settings to EEF programmes and evaluations.

Andy manages a wide portfolio of EEF programmes.

Megan support the programmes team across a wide range of EEF programmes.

Ben works in the Programmes Team as a Programme Manager.

Jennie oversees early years grants and lead on communication and language and early literacy themes.

Fabiola manages a range of EEF-funded programmes and is our Ed Tech theme leader.

Amy leads the Programme Development and Scale-up team.

Amy is a Senior Programme Manager who specialises in scale-up, and leads the EEF’s work on education technology (EdTech).

Sarah is a Programme Manager managing a range of EEF-funded projects, and specialises in EEF’s early-stage programme development work.

Rida is a Programme Manager managing a range of EEF-funded projects, and leads the EEF programmes work in secondary maths.

Tara is a Programme Manager and manages a range of EEF-funded projects, with a focus on scale-up.

Jo is a Programme Manager managing a range of EEF-funded projects, and leads the EEF programmes work in tutoring.

Ignacia is responsible for managing robust evaluations of EEF-funded projects, and leads the programme pipeline work and the evaluator panel.

Lottie is responsible for commissioning robust evaluations of EEF-funded projects, and for supporting contracted research groups.

Amber supports the delivery and coordination of impactful programmes across the organisation.

Katharina (Kat) leads the EEF’s evaluation team, which commissions high-quality, cost-effective evaluations of EEF-funded projects.

Celeste leads our Teacher and School Choices work, as well as our work on policy evaluations and quasi-experimental designs.

Rachael is responsible for managing robust evaluations of EEF-funded projects, and leads on the EEF data archive, and partnership with YEF.

Guillermo is responsible for the management of EEF evaluations.

Lauren is responsible for managing robust evaluations of EEF-funded projects, and leads on early years evaluations.

Maria is responsible for commissioning robust evaluations of EEF-funded projects, and for supporting contracted research groups.

Faizaan is responsible for commissioning robust evaluations of EEF-funded projects, and for monitoring and supporting contracted research groups.

Flavy is responsible for commissioning robust evaluations of EEF-funded projects, and for supporting contracted research groups.

Marta is responsible for commissioning robust evaluations of EEF-funded projects, and for supporting contracted research groups.

Maria is responsible for managing robust evaluations of EEF-funded projects, and leads on post-16 evaluations.

Phoebe is responsible for commissioning robust evaluations of EEF-funded projects, and for supporting contracted research groups.

Belén is responsible for commissioning robust evaluations of EEF-funded projects, and for supporting contracted research groups.

Daniela supports the commissioning of evaluations linked to the Accelerator Fund.

Jack is responsible for managing robust evaluations of EEF-funded projects, and leads on our reporting process. .

Karishma is responsible for the management of EEF evaluations.

Vincent leads a UKRI-funded research project to help the EEF develop insight into effective trial recruitment and retention strategies.

Vipin manages a range of EEF-funded programmes.

Sophie is a member of the evaluation team as part of the traineeship scheme while pursuing her MSc in Evaluation and Policy Analysis at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Hannah is an Evaluation Officer and provides logistical and project management processes regarding commissioning evaluations.

Becca is responsible for commissioning and supporting evaluations.

Sarah is an Evaluation Manager.

Stu leads the EEF’s Evidence Mobilisation team

Jonathan helps develop the EEF’s approach to mobilising evidence, including leading its work on evidence-informed implementation.

Lizzie is currently seconded from the regional team to lead our work in Wales and support evidence mobilisation in the post-16 sector.

Lorwyn leads on the delivery of EEF’s System Support offer and co-leads our work across regions in England.

Phoebe is National Delivery Manager (Partnerships), covering the role while Lizzie Swaffield focuses on supporting the EEF partnership with the Welsh Government.

Sarah leads the EEF’s work on the Early Years and Stronger Practice Hubs.

Sara leads the EEF’s work on the Early Years

Jo supports Research Schools to mobilise evidence through communication, local partnerships, and bespoke projects.

Siobhan supports Research Schools to mobilise evidence through communication, local partnerships, and bespoke projects.

Anna supports Research Schools to mobilise evidence through communication, local partnerships, and bespoke projects.

Kate supports Research Schools to mobilise evidence through communication, local partnerships, and bespoke projects.

Sarah supports the delivery of the EEF regional strategy and helps to build understanding and engagement around our partnership approach in London and the South East.

Vanessa is one of the EEF’s Regional Delivery Leads for Yorkshire.

Charlotte is the EEF’s Regional Delivery Lead for the South West and South Coast of England.

Matt oversees the running of the Research Schools Network with a particular focus on managing governance, events and systems.

Sandra facilitates cross-team efforts for our early years work and our role as evidence partner to the Stronger Practice Hubs programme.

Scout supports the running of the Research Schools Network, its governance and communications.

Zuleika provides administrative support to the Regional Delivery team and the Research Schools Network.

Kate leads on EEF’s early years policy work, alongside work to enable evidence-informed practice within the early years system.

Helen’s role sits in the Evidence Mobilisation team as a College Network Manager.

Alex leads the strategy development of our content and our sector engagement work.

Kirsten leads the team of content and engagement specialists at the EEF, overseeing the development of EEF resources and tools.

Richard manages data and setting engagement for the EEF.

Grace supports the mobilisation and use of EEF evidence in the field of maths by producing content and gathering practitioner insights.

Lauren develops content with, and for, the early years sector, focusing on evidence-informed practices to support our youngest children.

Chloe supports the mobilisation and use of EEF evidence in the field of literacy by producing content and gathering practitioner insights.

Julian leads the EEF’s content and engagement work in the early years.

Harry leads our content and engagement work that focuses on bringing evidence to the reality of teaching practice.

Rosie is a Content Development Officer. She supports the development and maintenance of a range of media products that exemplify excellent evidence use in schools.

Flick is our Audience Engagement and Research Officer. She is responsible for supporting a range of engagement activities.

Rachael leads on the monitoring and evaluation of our work to mobilise evidence.

Jon leads EEF’s work on summarising evidence through resources like the Teaching and Learning Toolkit and our international partnerships.

Mohammad manages the EEF’s work on the Education Database project.

Amy manages EEF’s international partnerships, supporting the use of more and better evidence in education systems across the globe.

Kat manages a range of evidence synthesis projects at the EEF and leads this work for guidance reports.

Rose manages a range of evidence synthesis projects at the EEF and leads our work on core components.

Daniel undertakes a range of research at the EEF.

Hannah undertakes a range of research at the EEF.

Isabel undertakes a range of research at the EEF with a particular focus on the Teaching and Learning and Early Years Toolkits.

Ellis supports the growth and maintenance of the EEF’s global network of partner organisations, the Evidence for Education Network.

Anushka supports a range of evidence synthesis projects at the EEF.

Yuria supports a range of evidence synthesis projects at the EEF.

Cat’s role is in the Evidence Synthesis Team as a Research Officer.

Nick leads EEF’s policy development and policy engagement work. 

Laurence promotes evidence-informed policy with a focus on professional development and the school workforce.

Rob supports the development of new approaches to running evaluations of teacher practices, as well as providing technical expertise.

Natalie develops strategic policy priorities relevant to the EEF’s mission.

Katie supports the EEF’s development and promotion of evidence-informed policy.

Eleanor supports the EEF’s development and promotion of evidence-informed policy.

Rupal is responsible for supporting the EEF’s work on promoting evidence-informed policy.

Hilary is responsible communicating the EEF’s work to external audiences.

Adil leads on the management, strategy, and development of our digital products.

Dawn provides support for the EEF’s communications activities, including through our website and social media platforms.

Grace plays a critical role in planning, shaping, and delivering communications that promote the work and reputation of the EEF to our core audiences.

Marianne plans and executes the EEF’s people initiatives, providing internal customer support and driving functional excellence.

Sarah manages EEF’s fundraising activities and partnerships with mission-aligned organisations, and co-chairs the School Funders’ Network.

Wura is the EEF’s Finance Manager.

Iain supports the EEF’s administrative activities, organising people, information and other resources.

Kirti supports the EEF’s administrative activities, organising people, information and other resources.

Tanya is responsible for providing administrative support to the EEF’s chief executive.

Jasmine supports the EEF’s daily operational activities, coordinating staff, resources and administrative processes.

Ryan supports the EEF’s HR functions.

Abbie’s role leads efforts to secure philanthropic income that maximises EEF’s impact.