Glancing over Anna Smee's career history, you could be forgiven for thinking that she gained the role of chief executive of UK Youth without having any previous experience of youth work.
Before her appointment, the economics graduate spent three years as director of ventures at social innovation think-tank The Young Foundation, where she was responsible for supporting social enterprise and social investment.
Prior to this, she spent four years as director of Hundred Consulting, working with private equity companies and venture capitalists.
But behind the scenes, Smee had been actively supporting youth organisations and for some time has contributed to a number of influential pieces of work, including the Framework of Outcomes for young people by the now disbanded Catalyst consortium, and Impetus-Pef's Ready for Work report.
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