Anne has been Head of Humanitarian Policy and Advocacy at CAFOD, the England and Wales section of Caritas International since 2010. Her work addresses a range of issues including international humanitarian system change, promotion of partnership approaches in humanitarian action, humanitarian financing and particularly southern NGO access to humanitarian funding, conflict sensitivity, humanitarian principles, and a focus on country-specific humanitarian crises.

Before specialising in humanitarian policy she had programmatic experience of living in or working on development, emergency and conflict issues in Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. She has published in both academic and practioner journals, and has contributed to a range of publications.

She holds a bachelors degree from Exeter University in Politics and Sociology and a Masters degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.