Professor Nigel M. de S. Cameron
Chairman

Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Ph.D., is Chairman of BioCentre and President and CEO of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies in Washington DC. Cameron has been a Research Professor and Associate Dean at the Illinois Institute of Technology where until 2008 he was Director of the Center on Nanotechnology and Society. In 2003 he co-founded the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future. He recently edited Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century (2007); other books include The New Medicine: Life and Death after Hippocrates (1991).

He has been a visiting scholar at UBS Wolfsberg in Switzerland, and a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival and Global Health Forum. He has served on the advisory boards of Nanotechnology Law and Business, the Converging Technologies Bar Association, and the World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress.

Cameron has represented the United States on delegations to the United Nations General Assembly and UNESCO, and been a participant in the U.S./EU dialogue Perspectives on the Future of Science and Technology. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, and has testified before both houses of Congress, the European Parliament and the European Commission's Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies. In 2008 he was the United States Government's nominee to the UN Human Rights Council as Special Rapporteur for the Right to Health. A naturalized United States citizen, he is a native of the UK where he studied at Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and the Edinburgh Business School.
 

Matt James, BA (Hons), MA
Director

Matt James is the Director of BioCentre. His research interests lie in the intersection of ethics, technology and public policy, with a particular interest in nanoscience and transhuman philosophy. Matt has an undergraduate degree in political history and sociology as well as a Master's degree in bioethics and medical law.

He has worked in Parliament as a parliamentary researcher for a MP and shadow minister as well as a freelance consultant to various Westminster based organisations. In addition to this Matt has a wealth of experience in various aspects of research, administration and new media development for various organisations both in the political and charity sector.