Anna Petherick is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, where she directs the Lemann Foundation Programme, and lectures on the core graduate course, the Politics of Policymaking, as well as teaching several executive courses.Anna’s own research looks at relationships between gender, identity, political polarisation, corruption, trust and integrity. From 2020 onwards, she has also focused on the social and political aspects of COVID-19. She acts as a reviewer for journals such as APSR, EPSR, PNAS, Nature Medicine and Science Advances.Anna has written 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 the UN General Assembly. Anna completed her training at Cambridge (BA, MA, Natural Sciences) and Oxford Universities (MPhil Comparative Government, DPhil Politics). Before becoming an academic, she was a journalist. She has held 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.
