Jodie Reed is an expert on early years and education policy with over 15 years’ senior-level experience in Whitehall, third-sector and policy think-tanks, leading policy development and public service reform. She is passionate about empowering good people and organisations to think strategically and maximise their social impact. She currently provides analytical and strategic leadership support to a range of public and third-sector organisations as a director at Isos Partnership. She is also a trustee at Young Women's Trust, the national charity for no and low paid young women, and a governor at a London primary school.

Jodie's interest in early intervention started as a senior research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, where she led and published work on early years and social mobility as well as schools policy. As a civil servant she was initially responsible for advising ministers on how to prioritise funding to narrow gaps and improve life chances of the most disadvantaged children. Later roles included leading work with the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit to develop cross-Whitehall early learning and childcare strategy, heading up the Department for Education's Under-5s Free Offer Unit, and leading on operational strategy on academies. She left on secondment to the education charity Ark to expand their early years provision, including developing a new not-for-profit early years venture for disadvantaged children — Ark Start. Jodie's focus on early years and early intervention continues, for example with the publication of the report Working for Babies: Lockdown lessons from local systems for the First 1001 Days Movement in 2021.