Onora O'Neill#
| Email: | oon20 'at' cam.ac.uk |
| Membership Number: | 2593 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Username: | oo'neill |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1992 - 2006Principal 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
- President of the Aristotelian Society (1988 to 1989)
- Member of the Animal Procedures Committee (1990 to 1994)
- Chair of Nuffield Council on Bioethics (1996 to 1998)
- Member and then acting chair of the Human Genetics Advisory Commission (1996 to 1999)
- Member of the select committee on BBC Charter Review
- Chair of the Nuffield Foundation (since 1997)
- Trustee of Sense About Science (since 2002)
- 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
- Honorary FRS (2007)
- 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
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