Anna is Chair of the Discipline of Government of International Relations and an Associate Professor in Public Policy and Comparative Politics at the University of Sydney. As well as being an academic, she is an admitted solicitor. She current undertakes part-time legal consultancy for the boutique law firm Violet Co & Legal specialising in employment and anti-discrimination law. A frequent public speaker, she sits of 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 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 hidden forms of political and social phenomenon: gender discrimination towards immigrants in the workplace and in selection policies; immigration in democracies but also non-democracies; exploitation of workers; healing from political trauma and sexual violence towards migrants. The research is applied and she is a frequent media commentator and government advisor on these topics.

Her leadership style is humanistic, engaged, transparent, creative, caring, yet exacting.