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Laura Gilbert
Dr. Laura Gilbert is the Head of the AI for Government program, delivered jointly by the Ellison Institute of Technology and Tony Blair Institute. She is delivering a suite of AI solutions to improve the ability of governments to plan and deliver resilient public services and generate better economic and wellbeing outcomes for their citizens. She is also Expert Advisor in AI to the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology. From September 2020 to January 2025 Laura worked in 10 Downing Street as the founding director of 10DS, the data science and analytics team. She created and directed the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI) in 2023 until her exit alongside other responsibilities.
These high performance teams successfully provided ground-breaking, fast-paced modelling and analysis to support policy making and delivery, and delivered expert data and AI solutions into public services. Laura also created a broader program of radical transformation, innovation, digitisation and radical upskilling in central government called Evidence House, delivering around 1800 hours of free, in person technical training to civil servants and spinning out multiple AI solutions to public service delivery problems. In 2023 she was awarded a CBE for Services to Technology and Analysis. Laura previously worked in defence intelligence, quantitative finance, and for nearly a decade was CTO of a medical technologies company, Rescon, bringing it from start-up to SMT to acquisition before exiting and joining government in 2020.
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