Jane has worked in the educational sector for nearly three decades, advising on, implementing and managing programmes of system-level change across diverse contexts, including Education in Emergencies. She has worked with ministries of education, government agencies, non-governmental organisations, donor agencies and educational organisations to support large-scale system transformation through to targeted interventions.

Jane has also worked outside the education sector, advising and consulting on regulatory frameworks, trade publishing strategy, communications and process redesign. She is a Governing Body Fellow of Hughes Hall (University of Cambridge), a member of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement and a Salzburg Fellow, and is also a member of the BESA Executive Council.