Professor Becky Francis CBE is Chief Executive Officer of the Education Endowment Foundation, an independent charity and grant funder dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement.  She is also Chair of the Curriculum and Assessment Review. She was previously Director of the UCL Institute of Education (IOE), ranked #1 in the world for education in the international QS rankings. Her prior roles include Professor of Education and Social Justice at King’s College London and Standing Advisor to the Parliamentary Education Select Committee.  Becky was the inaugural Charles Yidan Global Fellow at Harvard University. Her academic expertise and extensive publications centre on social identities and inequalities in educational contexts.