Meet the team

Alice leads on setting and implementing the strategy and business plan for the Children’s Commissioner, oversees policy development and communications, and has deputising responsibilities for the Commissioner. Former Associate Editor for the Times and national newspaper columnist of the year, Alice also has a wealth of experience gained at the heart of Government. She was senior policy advisor to the Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Children and Families from 2012-15, focusing on child protection and social work reform, and has also acted as senior policy advisor at the Ministry of Justice and Cabinet Office. She is completing a PhD with the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics.

Haroon leads the office’s work on evidence, measurement, and analysis. He first joined as Head of Analysis, and led the quantitative analysis of data to produce new evidence on the numbers, outcomes and experiences of vulnerable children. Prior to this, he was Senior Economist at the Early Intervention Foundation where we worked on standards of evidence for early intervention, the economic case for early intervention and the fiscal costs of late intervention. He started his career at the Institute for Fiscal Studies where he analysed the effects of education and skills policies.