Anna Smith is a consultant and policy advisor with over 30 years’ experience in government and public sector leadership. An expert in devolution, she has been Acting Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and Leader of Cambridge City Council, and brings a unique perspective of having been both acting metro mayor and council leader at the same time. She has been at the centre of the work to supercharge the economy of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough region, and has overseen one of the biggest per capita council house building programmes of any council in the country.