Anna is Chair of the Discipline of Government of International Relations at the University of Sydney where she leads a team of 47 political scientists, international relations and public policy scholars. She is an Associate Professor in Public Policy and Comparative Politics. As well as being an academic, she is an admitted solicitor and has undertaken legal work at Clayton Utz Law Firm and Violet Co & Legal. A frequent public speaker, she sits as VP (Independent) on the Executive Committee of The Australian Institute of Employment Rights, the Immigration Minister of Australia’s Migration Advisory Council on Skilled Migration Expert Sub-Committee and was from 2023-4 on the Advisory Panel of the NSW Anti-Slavery Commissioner. You can read her CV here: Boucher CV

A proud graduate of the public education system, her tertiary education encompasses political science, law and research methods at the University of Sydney and the London School of Economics and Political Science and she holds six qualifications in these fields. She is a former Commonwealth Scholar, University Medalist, Zeit Ebelin Bucerius Scholar in Migration Studies, Laffan, DECRA and SOAR Fellow. Her research, teaching and policy practice focuses on unsurfacing, documenting and ultimately solving (or healing) subterranean political and social phenomenon. She is a frequent media commentator and government advisor on these topics.

Her leadership style is humanistic, engaged, transparent, creative, caring, yet exacting. She has been nominated for, and won, many awards, most recently in 2024, the Faculty Teaching Leadership Award for excellence in mentoring and leading others in their teaching.