Anne-Marie Canning MBE serves as the Chief Executive Officer of The Brilliant Club and holds positions as the Independent Chair of the Education Alliance for Life Chances with Bradford Birth To 19, and as the Independent Chair of the Bradford Opportunity Area and Priority Education Investment Area at the Department for Education. Additionally, Anne-Marie co-chairs the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education and has previously worked as the Director of Social Mobility and Student Success and the Director of Widening Participation at King's College London. Education includes a BA Hons in English and Related Literatures from the University of York, and further studies at Birkbeck, University of London from 2017 to 2019.