Danielle Hamm was formerly Political and Communications Assistant at the Progress Educational Trust (PET). She is a Policy Manager and secretary of the Ethics and Law Advisory Committee at the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, where she leads on policy development relating to sperm, egg and embryo donation. She is also a Visiting Lecturer at London Metropolitan University, and a member of the Clinical Ethics Committee of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. She has worked as a Medical Ethics Adviser to the British Medical Association, as a Parliamentary Researcher, and as a member of the Policy and Community Services departments of Help the Aged. She is coauthor (with Ann Sommerville) of The Ethics of Caring for Older People (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA).