Welcome Nigel Cameron

January 31, 2007

We are now posting the writings of Dr. Nigel Cameron, Director of the Center on Nanotechnology and Society at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and President of the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future.

Dr. Cameron’s chief interest lies in the implications of emerging technologies for policy and human values. He is a member of the United States National Commission for UNESCO, and of the advisory boards of the Converging Technologies Bar Association, the Nano Law and Business Journal, and 2020Health (UK). Cameron has been Scholar-in-Residence at UBS Wolfsberg, and given expert testimony to committees of the US Congress and the European Parliament. He has been a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival and the World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress.

A native of the United Kingdom, Cameron has studied at Cambridge and Edinburgh universities and the Edinburgh Business School. He founded the journal Ethics & Medicine in 1983, and is widely recognized as a commentator on bioethics and biotech policy issues, having appeared on ABC Nightline, CNN, PBS Frontline, and the BBC. His books include The New Medicine: Life and Death after Hippocrates, Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century (edited, in press with John Wiley), and he is currently working on his next book Choosing Tomorrow. In addition, he maintains a blog by the same name.

Please welcome Nigel to bioethics.com!