FORMER Ilkley Grammar School student Dr Anna Dixon has been awarded an MBE for services to wellbeing in later life in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. Now Chief Executive of the Centre for Ageing Better, she led Ageing Better’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, providing expert advice and evidence to government and others to support responsive policy making, with a key focus on the growing number of older workers at risk of falling out of work prematurely before they can afford to retire. Anna has made a significant contribution to the government’s strategic focus on ageing in particular through support for the Industrial Strategy Ageing Grand Challenge.