Dr Anna Boucher is an Associate Professor in Public Policy and Comparative Politics at the University of Sydney focusing on immigration, citizenship and public policy. From 2023-2024, she was Chair of Discipline, where she managed 47 full-time and part-time staff. She is an active member of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (NSW Branch), Women’s Lawyers Association NSW, the Australian Labour Law Association and the Australian Political Studies Association.

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, the latter in workplace law. A frequent public speaker, she engages in considerable practical and academic work in public and legal policy.

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 2022-3 on the Advisory Panel of the NSW Anti-Slavery Commissioner.  She is on the academic advisory panel to the British Office of the Director of Labour Market Enforcement on labour abuse. She is also an academic consultant to Outside Opinion.

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.