Dr Anna Schrimpf is the Global Director of Innovation of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and a member of J-PAL's board. J-PAL is a global research centre working to fight poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anchored by a network of more than 870 leading researchers and 550 staff worldwide, J-PAL conducts randomized evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty. J-PAL identifies key policy insights emerging from this research and builds partnerships to inform high-level decision-making and adoption of evidence at scale. More than 600 million people have been reached by programs and policies informed by evaluations led by J-PAL researchers. As Global Director of Innovation, Anna leads the conceptualization and launch of innovative areas of work for J-PAL worldwide.Until September 2023, Anna was the Executive Director of J-PAL Europe, J-PAL's European regional office based at the Paris School of Economics. As Executive Director of J-PAL Europe, Anna provided strategic, technical, and operational direction to J-PAL's research, policy, and capacity-building engagements spanning more than 20 countries. Examples of this work launched during Anna's leadership of J-PAL Europe since 2018 include the European Social Inclusion Initiative (an initiative to support research and policy work promoting social inclusion in the region), the Innovation, Data, and Experiments in Education project (a long-term partnership with the French Ministry of Education to produce actionable evidence in education with a focus on enhancing administrative data capacity) and the creation of a Policy Lab in Spain in collaboration with the Spanish Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security, and Migration to bring evidence to the core of social policymaking in Spain. During Anna's tenure as Executive Director, J-PAL Europe also launched a worldwide workstream on humanitarian issues, including the Displaced Livelihoods Initiative. Anna continues her involvement in J-PAL Europe's work in an advisory capacity.