Anand Shukla

Bio

Anand is Chief Executive of the Henry Smith Charity, one of the UK’s largest grant giving foundations. He is a governor at Coventry University and a Clore Social Leadership Fellow. Anand’s extensive leadership experience at executive and non-executive level spans the civil society, public and higher education sectors. He was the Chief Executive of Brightside between 2015 and 2020 – a mentoring charity that works with 10,000 young people from disadvantaged backgrounds every year. Previously, he led Daycare Trust and Family and Childcare Trust which advocate for high-quality universal childcare and support for families across the UK. Anand was the chair of the governing body of his children’s primary school and has also served as a Non-Executive Director at the Social Investment Business. He is currently a Trustee at the Richard Thornton Foundation. Anand grew up in Walsall in the West Midlands. In his early career, he worked in private sector publishing for Reed Elsevier, Butterworths and Lexis- Nexis and has also worked for the children’s charity Barnardo’s.