Ann Rossiter has been director of the Social Market Foundation since July 2005. Since taking over she has broadened the range of SMF’s work, taking it into new areas of social and economic policy, and doubled the size of the organsation. She joined the SMF in July 2003 as Director of Research and is a specialist in reform of welfare and the public services. Other policy interests include employment and energy policy.

Before joining the SMF, her career included a number of advisory roles in politics and policy making. She spent four years at the BBC in the Political Research Unit and in political programming, followed by four years working in parliament for Rt Hon John Denham MP and Glenda Jackson MP, on pensions and transport policy. Prior to joining the SMF, Ann was a Board Director of Fishburn Hedges, the corporate communications consultancy. Ann studied philosophy at Birkbeck College, London University and is a contributor to the Dictionary of Labour Biography (Politicos 2001).