Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve

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Onora Sylvia O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve CBE PBA (born 23 August 1941) is a cross-bench member of the House of Lords.

She studied philosophy, psychology and physiology at Oxford University, and went on to complete a doctorate at Harvard, with John Rawls as supervisor. She is a former professor of philosophy and, until October 2006, was the Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. She has written widely on political philosophy and ethics, international justice, bioethics and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Her books include:

• Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics (2002)
• Bounds of Justice (2000)
• Towards Justice and Virtue (1996)
• Constructions of Reason: Exploration of Kant's Practical Philosophy (1989)
• Faces of Hunger: An Essay on Poverty, Development and Justice (1986)
• Acting on Principle (1975)

She has been president of the Aristotelian Society (1988 to 1989), a member of the Animal Procedures Committee (1990 to 1994), chair of Nuffield Council on Bioethics (1996 to 1998), a member and then acting chair of the Human Genetics Advisory Commission (1996 to 1999). She is presently chair of the Nuffield Foundation (since 1997), a trustee of Sense About Science (since 2002) and President of the British Academy (since 2005).

She was made a Life peer as Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve, of The Braid in the County of Antrim in 1999.

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• Reith Lectures 2002 on A Question of Trust by O'Neill
• Announcement of her introduction at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 3 March 1999
• Public Health or Clinical Ethics: Thinking Beyond Borders article in the Ethics and International Affairs Journal, Volume 16.2 (Fall 2002)