Dr Laura Gilbert CBE is an independent adviser working to put AI to use in the public interest, predominantly across the UK public sector, alongside work with tech startups, other governments, board roles and public speaking. She is a Visiting Professor in Practice at the LSE School of Public Policy and a Visiting Fellow in AI at Hertford College, Oxford, and advises organisations including UKRI, ESRC, TPR, GBRX, Brent Council and OpenUK.

From 2025 to 2026 she was Senior Director of AI at the Tony Blair Institute, leading the AI Innovation Lab. Before that she spent over four years in 10 Downing Street as founding director of 10DS, the government’s data science team, and of the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence, i.AI. She was awarded a CBE for Services to Technology and Analysis in the 2024 New Year Honours.

Laura holds a doctorate in particle physics from Oxford, she was previously CTO of a medical technology company and has worked in quantitative finance and defence intelligence and has represented Great Britain seven times in savate kickboxing.