Editors-In-Chief, Associate Editors and Book Reviews Editor
William Casebeer
William Casebeer is a career intelligence analyst and Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force. He holds degrees in political science from the US Air Force Academy (BS), philosophy from the University of Arizona (MA), national security studies from the Naval Postgraduate School (MA), and a joint PhD in cognitive science and philosophy from UC San Diego. His research interests include neuroethics, the evolution of morality, the intersections of cognitive science and national security policy, philosophy of mind and military ethics. He is author of Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism, and Moral Cognition (MIT Press).
Anthony Mark Cutter
Anthony Mark Cutter is Senior Lecturer in Ethics, Governance and Law at the Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire (UK), and a Barrister-at-Law. He has written and lectured internationally on a range of issues within the field of ethics, law and technology. His focus is governance issues, including the governance of nanotechnology and biotechnology. In the UK, he is a Governor of the Royal National College for the Blind, a Trustee of the Lancashire Family Mediation Service and has been appointed by the Home Office to be a Member of the Board of the National Probation Service (Cumbria).
Bert Gordijn
Bert Gordijn is Secretary of the European Society for Philosophy of Health Care and Medicine. He holds the post of Lecturer and Clinical Ethicist within the Department of Ethics, Philosophy & History of Medicine at the Radboud University, Nijmegen. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology and has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Patent Office, the External Science Advisory Panel to the Long-Range Research Initiative of the European Chemical Industry Council, and the UNESCO expert committee on ethics and nanotechnology.
David Grinspoon
David Grinspoon is an internationally known planetary scientist and NASA advisor. His latest book, Lonely Planets: The Natural History of Alien Life, won the 2004 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction. His technical papers have been published in Nature, Science, and numerous other journals. The American Astronomical Society awarded him the 2006 Carl Sagan Medal for excellence in public communication of planetary science. He currently serves as curator of Astrobiology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and Adjunct Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Science at the University of Colorado.
Patrick Lin
Patrick Lin is the director of The Nanoethics Group, a non-partisan organization focused on the social and ethical impact of emerging technologies, especially nanotechnology. He is a visiting assistant professor in the philosophy department at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, and he also holds academic appointments at Dartmouth College as well as Western Michigan University. Along with his conference lectures and published papers, he is a co-editor on the new anthology Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology (Wiley, 2007), the first of its kind.
Jeffery H. Matsuura
Jeffrey H. Matsuura is an attorney with the U.S. technology law firm, the Alliance Law Group, and has earned degrees from Duke, the University of Virginia, and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of five books and numerous articles on technology law and policy. Mr. Matsuura has served as counsel for numerous technology-based companies, including MCI Communications, COMSAT Corporation, and the Discovery Channel. He has also advised governments in nations including China, Lebanon, and Canada, and in states including Virginia and Ohio on topics involving technology law and policy.
Andy Miah
Andy Miah is Reader in New Media & Bioethics in the School of Media, Language and Music at the University of the West of Scotland, and a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He has published broadly in areas of emerging technologies, particularly related to human enhancement technologies and digital culture. He is the author of “Genetically Modified Athletes: Biomedical Ethics, Gene Doping & Sport” (2004, Routledge) and co-author of "The Medicalization of Cyberspace" (2007, Routledge). In 2006, he advised the UK Government on a public inquiry into Human Enhancement Technologies in Sport.
John Paterson
John Paterson studied law at the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh (UK) and holds a PhD from the European University Institute. In 2004, he joined the University of Aberdeen. His research has covered the regulation of risk, governance in the EU, corporate governance and oil and gas law. He is co-editor of Oil and Gas Law in Kazakhstan (Kluwer, 2004) and of Oil and Gas Law: Current Practice and Emerging Trends (Dundee University Press, forthcoming). He has been involved in a number of international research projects dealing with risk and governance and has acted as a consultant for the OECD’s Nuclear Energy Agency.
David B. Resnik
David B. Resnik is a Bioethicist and Vice Chair of the Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects Research at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a branch of the National Institutes of Health. He has an MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a JD from Concord University School of Law. Dr. Resnik has published over 130 articles on various topics on the philosophical, ethical, and legal aspects of science, medicine, and technology.
Michael J. Selgelid
Michael J. Selgelid earned a PhD in Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego and a BS in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the Australian National University, where he is also a founding and Executive Board member of the National Centre for Biosecurity. He was the Principal Researcher for a recent CAPPE consultancy with the Australian Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences.
Kush Wadhwa
Kush Wadhwa is a Founder and Managing Director of Global Security Intelligence. He provides strategic advisory services to both private and public-sector deployers of security systems, and engages in R&D projects affecting the future direction of security deployments. Prior to founding GSI, Kush served in senior management roles in security-related consulting, as well as various other high-technology industries. He holds Bachelor’s degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering and English Literature and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.