Education
Altmann attended the Henrietta Barnett School winning the Dame Henrietta Barnet memorial prize for sixth form achievements. She was awarded a first class honours degree from the University of London and a Kennedy Scholarship to Harvard University where she met both Mervyn King and Larry Summers. She received a Ph. D from the London School of Economics for research into poverty in elderly people.
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