Dame Lesley Regan is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Imperial College, St Mary’s Hospital, London. Having graduated from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London in 1980, Professor Regan pursued her career at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, where she first became enthused by clinical & laboratory research, completing an MD on miscarriage, the commonest complication of pregnancy.  She went on to set up the world’s largest recurrent miscarriage clinic at St Mary’s.  

Professor Regan was the 30th President (2016-2019) of the Royal College of Gynaecologists (RCOG), during which time she co-chaired the national Women’s Health Task Force and published the RCOG Better for Women report which highlighted the need for an NHS led women’s health strategy. Lesley was awarded a DBE for her services to women’s health in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List. She was appointed chair of the Wellbeing of Women charity in October 2020 and became the first ever Women’s Health Ambassador for England in June 2022.