Professor Richard Anderson

PET Trustee

Professor Richard Anderson is a Trustee at the Progress Educational Trust (PET), and is also Professor of Clinical Reproductive Science at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Reproductive Health. He has interests in both female and male fertility, and has conducted clinical studies in areas ranging from female fertility after cancer to hormonal male contraception. He originally trained in Edinburgh, with an intercalated PhD at the Medical Research Council's Brain Metabolism Unit. Work by his team led to a cancer patient from Edinburgh becoming the first woman in the UK to give birth following a transplant of her frozen ovarian tissue.

Richard is currently Chair of the British Fertility Society's Policy and Practice Committee. Previously, he was Chair of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Scientific Advisory Committee, and was a member of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE)'s Executive Committee and of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's Scientific and Clinical Advances Advisory Committee. He has contributed to the guidance, by ESHRE and others, on premature ovarian insufficiency and on female fertility preservation. He rides his bike much less than he should, and his horse as often as he can..