Anand Shukla is Acting Chief Executive at Daycare Trust, and took up his position in September 2010. Prior to this position, Anand Shukla was Daycare Trust's Business Director. Anand has worked in social enterprise development at the UK children's charity Barnardos and at the international development charity Allavida. His early career was spent in the private sector, working in business development for a number of publishing companies. Anand has also provided social enterprise consultancy for organisations working in international development and energy management. Anand is a trustee of the international development charities Health Poverty Action and CINI UK.