Laura leads the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office’s (FCDO) tax team. In this role she has been instrumental in designing and implementing FCDO’s approach on tax and development. Prior to that, she spent several years at HM Treasury working on EU negotiations and reforms of the banking sector following the financial crash. Before that she worked in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit under David Cameron and Gordon Brown. Laura is currently the Co-Chair of the Addis Tax Initiative (ATI) representing ATI development partners.