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'''Onora O'Neill''' "is a member of She holds the UK House title of Lords. She is a professor Honorary Professor of philosophy at the Philosophy, Emeritus, University of Cambridge, has written extensively on equality and freedom throughout her academic career and is highly regarded as a specialist on human rights. She was also the former chair of the [[Nuffield Foundation]] and was President of the [[British Academy]] from 2005-09."<ref>Equality and chairs Human Rights Commission [http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/about-us/the [[Nuffield Foundation]-commissioners/ Commissioners], organizational web page, accessed April 29, 2013. </ref> "Until October 2006, she was the Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. She has been a member of the Animal Procedures Committee (1990 to 1994), chair of Nuffield Council on Bioethics (1996 to 1998), and 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), a trustee of the [[Ditchley Foundation]], and a trustee of the [[Gates Cambridge Trust]].
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"She was made a Life peer as Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve, of The Braid in the County of Antrim in 1999, and in 2007 was elected an honorary FRS. She is also a Foreign Hon. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2002), a Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society (2003), and Hon. Member Royal Irish Academy (2003), a Foreign Member of the Leopoldina (2004) and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences (2006) and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences." <ref>[http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/igh/about_us.html About], Health Impact Fund, accessed February 16, 2010.</ref>
==Affiliations==
*Commissioner, [[Equality and Human Rights Commission]]
*Advisory Board, [[Incentives for Global Health]] <ref>[http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/igh/about_us.html About], Health Impact Fund, accessed February 16, 2010.</ref>
