Nigel M. de S. Cameron: Brief Biog
Writer, historian and ethicist Nigel Cameron has published in several fields – history, bioethics, theology, and the social impact of new technologies. In an academic career spanning both sides of the Atlantic, and leadership of a Washington think tank, he has written about robots and jobs, the values of the medical profession, and corporate social responsibility; as well as editing a collection of essays on the impact of nanotechnology, and a million-word history of religion in his native Scotland. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, he holds a Ph.D. from Edinburgh University and an M.B.A. and Diploma in Business Administration from the Edinburgh Business School. After nearly three decades in the United States, he now divides his time between homes in Belgium and France.
As Research Professor of Bioethics, Cameron directed projects on the social impact of emerging technologies and also on diabetes policy at the Illinois Institute of Technology in the early 2000s, and later was Fulbright Visiting Research Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Institute for Science, Society and Policy, where he is currently a Senior Fellow.
He has served as a hospital consulting ethicist, was founding editor of the journal Ethics and Medicine, and a board member of the UK think tanks 2020health.org and BioCentre. He has testified before committees of the U.S. Congress and the European Union, served as a member of U.S. diplomatic delegations to United Nations agencies on health-related issues, and was a U.S. Government candidate to be UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Health. He was appointed by Secretaries of State of both parties to serve four terms as a Commissioner of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, and chaired its Committee on Social and Human Sciences.
Cameron first met Dr. Koop when he invited him to lecture in the UK in 1986, and subsequently served with him on a non-profit board in the United States. Two decades later he was a guest at Koop’s 90th birthday party, co-hosted by Senators Orrin Hatch and Hillary Clinton.
