Haroon Chowdry is Chief Executive of the Centre for Young Lives, and a strong advocate for children and young people. Throughout his career he has used research and insights to drive policy change for children, families, and people facing social disadvantage. He joined from GambleAware where he was Director of Evidence & Insights, overseeing its work on inequalities and children and young people. Prior to this, he was Director of Evidence at the Children's Commissioner's Office, where he led its work on childhood vulnerability and oversaw all of its research and data-gathering. He also worked at the Early Intervention Foundation (now Foundations), where he developed approaches for assessing the costs and benefits of early intervention, as well as the costs of late intervention. He began his career at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where he carried out research on education policy and early intervention.