Laura Pascal

Laura Pascal has worked for a decade in Whitehall and Westminster in policy and external affairs. She was a civil servant at the Department of Health during the coalition government, and at the Department for Education under the previous government. Since 2022 she has worked in third-sector policy and public affairs, supporting charities working in poverty reduction, health and education. She has an MSc in Gender, [International] Development and Globalisation from the London School of Economics. An active feminist and political and community campaigner, she stood as a Labour candidate in a by-election for Hackney Council in January 2024. She is glad to have joined Sex Matters at a time when campaigning for clarity about sex in law is more important than ever.