Ann has been CEO of British Pregnancy Advisory Service, the UK’s leading independent provider of abortion care, since 2003. Before then she was Director of Policy and Press for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the UK’s regulator of embryo research and assisted conception. Ann has written extensively in defence of women’s autonomy and reproductive choice. She is a governor of a large further education college and is on the Board of the US reproductive health research organisation IBIS.