Board of Trustees

Natalie is the CEO of Education Policy Institute, a research institute she co-founded in 2015. In this role, Natalie has overseen new research spanning education and young people's mental health issues, including on topics such as the effectiveness of grammar schools, trends in the disadvantage gap, the recruitment and retention of teachers and the quality of the early years workforce.

Natalie previously served as a policy adviser to the Department for Education and within the Cabinet Office. At the DfE, she headed up the School Funding Reform Unit, responsible for developing policy to ensure fair allocation of education funding that also represented value for money.

Natalie is also on the Board of two other education charities; the Fair Education Alliance and Causeway Education and also serves as a trustee of another MAT in South East London.