Onora O'Neill has been Principal of Newnham College since 1992. She has written widely on ethics and political philosophy, with particular interests in questions of international justice, and in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Her books include Faces of Hunger: An Essay on Poverty, Development and Justice (1986), Constructions of Reason: Exploration of Kant's Practical Philosophy (1989), Towards Justice and Virtue (1996) and Bounds of Justice (2000), Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics (2002) and A Question of Trust (2002). She is currently working on conceptions of practical reason, on media ethics and the ethics of communication, and on their implications for informed consent requirements, and on the adequacy of the conceptions of informed consent commonly used in medicine and in research on human subjects.
She is President of the British Academy; she chairs the Nuffield Foundation and the British Philosophical Association. She was created a Life Peer in 1999, with the title Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve; she sits as a crossbencher, was a member of the Select Committee on Stem Cell Research, and is currently a member of the Select Committee on BBC Charter Review.
She is President of the British Academy; she chairs the Nuffield Foundation and the British Philosophical Association. She was created a Life Peer in 1999, with the title Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve; she sits as a crossbencher, was a member of the Select Committee on Stem Cell Research, and is currently a member of the Select Committee on BBC Charter Review.
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