
Anna Segura
Anna is a Senior Researcher at the Innovation Growth Lab (IGL).
Her role at IGL focuses on ensuring that rigorous evidence about how to improve entrepreneurship and business support programmes is incorporated into the decision-making processes of governments and other business support providers.
Before joining IGL in 2021, Anna worked on public policy evaluation for eight years. She began this work at Innovations for Poverty Action in Uganda and Colombia running randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in the field. After this, she worked at the Catalan Institute for Public Policy Evaluation (Ivàlua), evaluating the design, implementation and effectiveness of social policies. She has also been a consultant for the World Bank, associate lecturer at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and research assistant for several international universities.
Anna holds an MSc in Economic Development and Growth from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain and Lund University in Sweden, and a BA in Economics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.