Onora O'Neill#
| Membership Number: | 2593 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1992-2006 Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge University
Fields of Scholarship
- Kantian ethics
- Importance of trust and accountability in public life
- Practical judgement and normativity
- Ethics of communication (including media ethics)
Honours and Awards
- 1988 - 1989 President of the Aristotelian Society
- 1990 - 1994 Member of the Animal Procedures Committee
- 1996 - 1998 Chair of Nuffield Council on Bioethics
- 1996 - 1999 Member and then acting chair of the Human Genetics Advisory Commission
- Member of the select committee on BBC Charter Review
- Since 1997 Chair of the Nuffield Foundation
- Since 2002 Trustee of Sense About Science
- Trustee of the Ditchley Foundation
- Trustee of the Gates Cambridge Trust
- President of the British Academy between 2005 and 2009
- Life peer as Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve, of The Braid in the County of Antrim in 1999
- 2007 Honorary FRS
- Foreign Hon. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2002), a Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society (2003), and Hon. Member Royal Irish Academy (2003), a Foreign Member of the Leopoldina (2004) and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences (2006) and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2017 Holberg Prize
- 2017 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture
