Anna is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, where she also serves as Director of the Lemann Foundation Programme.

She lectures on the core graduate course, the Politics of Policymaking, as well as teaching and facilitating several executive courses, including the Chandler Sessions on Integrity and Corruption (with many national heads of anti-corruption agencies), the Executive and Rising Public Leaders Programmes.

The Lemann Foundation Programme has a broad remit to generate knowledge and conduct engagement to improve the public sector. It has projects in areas as wide-ranging as civil service diversity, education, health, digital government and environment, working mostly in Brazil but also in other parts of the Global South.

Anna’s research looks at relationships between political polarisation, gender, identity, corruption, trust and integrity. Further information about her publications be found on Google Scholar and her personal website. She acts as a reviewer for journals such as APSR, PNAS, EPSR, Nature Medicine, Nature Communications and Science Advances.

In 2020, Anna wrote a large United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report about gender and corruption, and frequently gives talks on the subject at international venues, which have included at the UN General Assembly.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and continuing to the present day, Anna has been co-Principal Investigator of the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) project and was Co-PI on the ICL-YouGov Global COVID Behaviours Study (2020-21). She has written widely on the social and political aspects of COVID-19 and is currently co-writing a small book with Mauricio Avendano (University of Lausanne, Harvard University), which is under contract with Oxford University Press entitled Politics, Social Policy and the People's Health.

Before becoming an academic, Anna was a journalist, holding positions such as Argentina Correspondent, Science Correspondent at The Economist, section editor at the science journal, Nature, and was a columnist at The Guardian and at Nature Climate Change. Occasionally, she writes blogs and articles about her current work in venues such as the Financial Times, and was recently the subject of a Folha de São Paulo profile.

In several podcasts, Anna has discussed the formal and informal politics of women's representation and activism (e.g. OxPol), the field of gender and corruption (KickBack), and the work of the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker team (e.g. The Oxford Quadrangle and Collecting COVID: Oral Histories).

Anna completed her training at Cambridge (BA, MA, Natural Sciences) and Oxford Universities (MPhil Comparative Government, DPhil Politics).