Announcing our Visiting Fellows for 2026–27

Laura Gilbert is Senior Director of AI at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where she leads the AI Innovation Lab, working with governments worldwide to harness AI for more effective public services and better outcomes for citizens. She is also a Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics School of Public Policy and a Visiting Fellow in AI at Hertford College, Oxford.

From September 2020 to January 2025, Laura worked in 10 Downing Street as the founding director of 10DS, the government’s data science team, and the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI). Her teams delivered rapid, high-impact modelling and analysis to support policy decisions, while pioneering AI solutions for public services. She was awarded a CBE for Services to Technology and Analysis in the New Year’s Honours 2024.

Laura holds a doctorate in Particle Physics from the University of Oxford and undergraduate degrees from the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of both the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Analytics, and is fluent in seven programming languages.

Before government, Laura spent a decade as CTO of Rescon, a medical technologies company she helped build from startup to acquisition. Her work spanned wearable technology, systems architecture, and data security and she was named on four patents. Earlier in her career, she worked in quantitative finance and defence intelligence. Outside work, Laura has represented Great Britain seven times in Savate kickboxing.

We’re also delighted that Anthony Geffen will continue as Visiting Fellow for this coming year.

Anthony Geffen is one of the world’s most respected figures in the creative industries. A multi-award-winning producer, and founder of Atlantic Studios, he is globally renowned for his high-end factual storytelling, often enhanced by innovative techniques and the latest technology. Most recently he has been working closely with Big Tech companies such as Google, Nvidia, Apple and Meta across multiple platforms in entertainment, education and health.

He has won over 50 major international awards, including 4 BAFTAS and 11 Emmys.

Recent immersive projects include ‘Black Holes XR’ for Google/Samsung, five-part immersive series ‘Adventure’ for Apple, ‘Life Before Birth XR’ with Chinese surgeons, ‘Neuro AI’ with Harvard Medical School, the ‘Rashid Rover’ project for the UAE Government, and ‘VE80’ for the British Government.

Before setting up Atlantic, his career encompassed Hollywood and the BBC. He has produced some of television’s most acclaimed documentaries such as the five-part series ‘The Promised Land’ about the African American migration, ‘Greeks: Crucible of Civilisation’, ‘Jerusalem: City of Heaven’, ‘Inside the Commons’, and ‘The Coronation’. Feature documentaries include ‘Hawking: Can You Hear Me?’, ‘Titanic: The Digital Resurrection’, ‘The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest’, ‘2025: The Year From Space’, and ‘Chasing Utopia’, about the future of AI, as well as multiple films with David Attenborough including ‘The Great Barrier Reef’, ‘First Life’, and ‘Natural History Museum Alive’.