Sandra McNally is Professor of Economics at University of Surrey and Director of the Education and Skills Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. She has directed the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER), a LSE-led consortium, funded by the Department for Education (2015-2020). Her research interests include economic evaluation of government policies in schools and further education and labour market returns to education and training. She is a co-editor of the Economics of Education Review and a member of research networks IZA and CESifo as well as RFBerlin