Anu is Head of Business & Operations for the BFI London Film Festival, which features over 600 screenings and live events to an annual audience of 200,000. Before this, she was Executive Director at Dance Umbrella festival and Co-Director of English National Ballet School. She’s also worked as Head of Dance at Arts Council England, General Manager at Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company and Education Administrator at Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Anu co-presented Network East for BBC2 and is trained in Indian Classical Dance. She currently teaches on the Clore Leadership Programme; is Chair of Aakash Odedra Company, on the board of Creative United, Tara Theatre, and the finance committee of Battersea Arts Centre.