Laura Riley is a Trustee at the Progress Educational Trust (PET), and Leader of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics project Mitochondrial Donation: Ethical Issues. She was formerly Director of PET (a post now held by Sarah Norcross), Senior Press and Public Affairs Officer at the King's Fund, and Press and Public Policy Manager at the British Pregnancy Advisory Service. Before working in health policy, she researched TV documentaries for the BBC's Science and Religion and Ethics departments and she studied Medical Ethics and Law at King's College London. She has contributed a chapter to Human Fertilisation and Embryology: Reproducing Regulation (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA), and she is coauthor of a chapter in Regulating Autonomy: Sex, Reproduction and Family (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA).

Left to right: Laura Riley, Juliet Tizzard, Sarah Norcross, Dr Kirsty Horsey, Dr Jess Buxton
At the celebration of the 10th anniversary and 500th edition of the Progress Educational Trust's BioNews publication
Photograph by Viscount Janric Craigavon

Left to right: Juliet Tizzard, Dr Kirsty Horsey, Dr Jess Buxton, Laura Riley
At the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Progress Educational Trust
Photograph by Viscount Janric Craigavon

Left to right: Dr Evan Harris, Laura Riley
At the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Progress Educational Trust
Photograph by Viscount Janric Craigavon