Dr Vanessa Pittard

Vanessa is Deputy Chief Executive of the mathematics education charity MEI. She joined the organisation in 2018 following seven years as an Assistant Director and mathematics policy lead at the Department for Education (DfE), during which time she was responsible, among other areas, for the introduction of Core Maths, the roll-out of Maths Hubs and supporting Sir Adrian Smith’s 2017 review of 16-18 mathematics. Previously, Vanessa was Director of Evidence and Evaluation at the education technology organisation Becta and a Subject Leader at Sheffield Hallam University. In 2018 Vanessa reported to the Royal Society Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education on the integration of data science in the primary and secondary curriculum.