ADVISORY BOARD

Nigel M. de S. Cameron

Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Ph.D., President of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, is Research Professor of Bioethics and an Associate Dean at Chicago-Kent College of Law in the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), where he has been Director of the Center on Nanotechnology and Society and co-founded the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future (IBHF) in IITıs Chicago-Kent College of Law. IBHF seeks to bring together experts and civil society leaders from diverse political and cultural positions on the emerging biotechnology agenda.

Cameron established the journal Ethics and Medicine in 1983 and is a frequent commentator on issues of technology, ethics and policy, with appearances on network television including ABC Nightline, CNN, PBS Frontline, and the BBC. His books include The New Medicine: Life and Death after Hippocrates (1991), and he has edited Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century (2007), and Cogno: Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Brain (in preparation). He has been a visiting scholar at UBS Wolfsberg in Switzerland, and a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival. He serves on the advisory boards of Nanotechnology Law and Business, the Converging Technologies Bar Association, and the World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress. He chaired the Technosapiens process that brought together leading liberals, conservatives, and technology leaders with transhumanists, and gave a keynote address at the 2006 Stanford Law School conference on enhancement technologies and human rights.

Cameron has represented the United States on delegations to the United Nations General Assembly and UNESCO, and has been a participant in the U.S./EU dialogue Perspectives on the Future of Science and Technology. He is a member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, and has testified before both houses of Congress, the European Parliament and the European Commissionıs Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies. A native of the UK, he studied at Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and the Edinburgh Business School.