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Professor Alastair V Campbell is the Director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine of the National University of Singapore. He has been the Director of two other bioethics centres, in the University of Otago, New Zealand and the University of Bristol, UK. He is a former President of the International Association of Bioethics, and has been responsible for the academic programme of two World Congresses, in London in 2000 and in Singapore in 2010. He is a recipient of the HK Beecher Award, a Fellow of the Hastings Centre, New York and of the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, Honorary Vice President of the Institute of Medical Ethics, and elected Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His recent books include Health as Liberation (1996), Medical Ethics (with D.G. Jones and G. Gillet, 3rd Edition 2005), The Body in Bioethics (2009) and Bioethics: the Basics (2013). He was formerly chair of the Ethics and Governance Council of UK Biobank and is currently a member of the Bioethics Advisory Committee to the Singapore Government.

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Annette graduated in medicine at the University of Mainz (Germany), where she also did her thesis in Neuropsychopharmacology. Afterwards, she started her training in neurology, then moved to old age psychiatry at the Psychiatric Hospital at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and finally finished her training as a specialist in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. In parallel, she has done research on the neurobiology of emotion, emotion regulation and the interaction of emotion and cognition in affective and anxiety disorders, using primarily functional magnetic resonance imaging, and also pharmacological and psychotherapeutic interventions. During a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge (UK), she worked with Barbara J. Sahakian and Trevor W. Robbins on the effects of acute stress and anxiety on cognition and on the neurobiology and ethics of cognitive enhancers.She is currently the head of the Centre for Depression, Anxiety Disorders and Psychotherapy at the Department for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Switzerland and a lecturer at the University of Zürich.

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Professor Bernardo Sabatini is based at Harvard Medical School, and is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator. His laboratory seeks to uncover the mechanisms of synapse and circuit plasticity that permit new behaviors to be learned and refined. They are interested in the developmental changes that occur after birth that make learning possible as well as in the circuit changes that are triggered by the process of learning. Lastly, they examine how perturbations of these processes contribute to human neuropsychiatric disorders such as Tuberous Sclerosis Complex and Parkinson’s disease.

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Briana Last received her BA from Columbia University, gaining a degree in psychology in May 2014, and is now a doctoral student of Clinical Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Before graduate school, she worked at Columbia University Medical Center at the Taub Institute, an interdisciplinary center on aging. Upon entering Penn, she shifted her focus to early life experiences and the sociological underpinnings of development under the mentorship of Dr. Martha Farah. She is interested in socioemotional development, particularly metacognition and decision-making processes.

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Carol Worthman holds the Samuel Candler Dobbs Chair in Anthropology, Emory University,and directs the Laboratory for Comparative Human Biology. She took her PhD in biological anthropology at Harvard University, having also studied endocrinology at UCSD and neuroscience at MIT. Professor Worthman deploys a biocultural approach in comparative interdisciplinary research on human development and pathways to differential mental and physical health. She has conducted cross-cultural biosocial research in thirteen countries, as well as in rural, urban, and semi-urban areas of the United States. Since 2007, she also leads the neuroscience component of the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative.

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Dan J. Stein is Professor and Chair of the Dept of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, and Director of the South African Medical Research Council’s Unit on Anxiety & Stress Disorders. During his training, he obtained doctorates in both clinical neuroscience and philosophy. His research ranges from basic neuroscience, through clinical research, and on to public health studies. He is enthusiastic about clinical practice and scientific research that integrates concepts and data across these different levels of investigation, particularly in the context of low and middle-income countries.

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Darlei Dall'Agnol is Professor of Ethics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brasil. He completed his PhD at the Bristol University, UK (2001), on the concept of intrinsic value. He has published several articles and books on ethics including two on bioethics. Currently, he is researcher of the CNPq (National Counsel for Scientific and Technological Development) working on the project "Care & Respect: rethinking the metaethical and normative basis of bioethics".

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Debra JH Mathews, PhD, MA, is Assistant Director for Science Programs for the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and affiliate faculty in the Institute of Genetic Medicine. She earned concurrently earned her PhD in genetics and a Master’s degree in bioethics from Case Western Reserve University. She completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in genetics at Johns Hopkins, and the Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities. Dr. Mathews has also spent time at the Genetics and Public Policy Center, the US Department of Health and Human Services, and the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She is responsible for overseeing the Stem Cell Policy and Ethics program (SCoPE) and the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences, at Hopkins. Dr. Mathews is a member of the steering committee of the Hinxton Group, an international collective of scientists, ethicists, policymakers and others, interested in ethical and well-regulated science, and whose work focuses primarily on stem cell research. Her academic work focuses on ethics and policy issues raised by emerging biotechnologies, with particular focus on genetics, stem cell science, neuroscience and synthetic biology.

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Eleanor Green is Senior Media Officer at the Wellcome Trust, leading on promotion of their neuroscience and mental health research portfolio. Eleanor’s remit includes promotion of outcomes from Wellcome funded research, as well as building Wellcome’s profile as a thought leader in this area, both in the UK and internationally. Prior to this role Eleanor worked in the press offices of the charities Parkinson’s UK and the British Heart Foundation. Eleanor has a BSc in Veterinary Science and a BSc in Cellular and Molecular Medicine from the University of Bristol.

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Gary Wilson works on the neuroscience and plant science programmes at the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, contributing to the development and implementation of research funding and strategic initiatives in both portfolios. Prior to joining Gatsby, Gary was a Portfolio Advisor within the Neuroscience and Mental Health funding section of the Wellcome Trust. He holds an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in neuropharmacology from University College London.

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Dr. Geoffrey Ling is professor of neurology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and an attending physician in Neuro Critical Care Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital. His medical degree is from Georgetown University and his PhD is from Cornell University. He has led research efforts to develop sophisticated products as such as the SAVE mini-ventilator and the DEKA robot prosthetic. He is the COO of On Demand Pharmaceuticals,. He is a retired US Army colonel having retired after 21 years of active duty as a critical care physician. The 10th Combat Support Hospital named him their first“Physician of the Month.” Dr. Ling was also a “requested by name” consultant to Congressman Gabby Gifford’s trauma team following her tragic attack. He has published over 180 peer-article and book chapters and 1 patent in neurology, neuroscience, critical care medicine and military medicine He was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), Sigma Xi and Military Medical Order of Merit. He is a fellow of the American Neurological Association and American Association of Neurology. He is a member of the Neurocritical Care Society, Society for Critical Care Medicine, American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and AMSUS (the Society of Federal Health Professionals).

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Georgia Lockwood Estrin is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In this position, she works on the Mental Health Innovation Network –an online platform for knowledge exchange, synthesis and transfer for mental health stakeholders. In this role she evaluates a global portfolio of mental health innovations. Prior to this, she completed her PhD in clinical neuroscience and neuroimaging at Imperial College London, where she investigated brain development of infants and children at a high risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder and neurodevelopmental delay. Her current research interests lie at the interface between neuroscience and global mental health, and she is working on a translational neuroscience platform to develop a screening tool for Autism Spectrum Disorders in low resource settings.

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Hank Greely is Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics at Stanford. He specializes in ethical, legal, and social issues arising from advances in genetics, neuroscience, and human stem cell research. He directs the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Stanford Program on Neuroscience in Society; chairs the California Advisory Committee on Human Stem Cell Research; and serves on the Neuroscience Forum of the Institute of Medicine, the Advisory Council for the National Institute for General Medical Sciences of NIH, the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law of the National Academy of Sciences, and the NIH Multi-Council Working Group on the BRAIN Initiative. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His book, The End of Sex and The Future of Human Reproduction, was published in May 2016. Professor Greely graduated from Stanford in 1974, from Yale Law School in 1977, and served as a law clerk for Judge John Minor Wisdom on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for Justice Potter Stewart of the United States Supreme Court. After working during the Carter Administration in the Departments of Defense and Energy, he entered private law practice in Los Angeles in 1981. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1985.

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Hannah Maslen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ethics. She is also a Junior Research Fellow at New College. She received her BA in PPP from Oxford, her MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Oxford, and her DPhil from Oxford in 2011.Hannah’s current research focuses on the ethical, legal and social implications of brain intervention technologies. She works in the Oxford Martin Programme on Mind and Machine,an interdisciplinary project, involving collaboration between scientists, engineers, and ethicists create technology that will allow observation of and intervention in brain function. Advances in understanding how the brain works are rapidly leading to new possibilities for intervention in brain function and the capacity for brains and machines to talk to each other directly is fast becoming a very real possibility. This raises profound ethical issues related to understanding behaviour and potentially manipulating it, so called ‘mind control’.Previously, Hannah worked on the NWO-funded project ‘Enhancing Responsibility: the Effects of Cognitive Enhancement on Moral and Legal Responsibility’. She also continues to write on topics in sentencing and penal theory and has recently had her book on remorse and retribution published (Hart Publishing).

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Ilina Singh is Professor of Neuroscience & Society at the University of Oxford, where she holds a joint appointment between the Department of Psychiatry and the Faculty of Philosophy (Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and Uehiro Centre). Her work examines the psychosocial and ethical implications of advances in biomedicine and neuroscience for young people and families. Recent projects include the ADHD VOICES project (www.adhdvoices.com); Neuroenhancement Responsible Research and Innovation (www.nerri.eu); and the Urban Brain Project (www.urbanbrainlab.com). In 2014, Professor Singh received a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award for a study entitled: Becoming Good: Early Intervention and Moral Development in Child Psychiatry. Professor Singh has published widely in eminent journals, including Nature, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Social Science and Medicine, and the American Journal of Bioethics. She is the lead editor of a new volume: BioPrediction, Biomarkers and Bad Behavior: Scientific, Ethical and Legal Challenges (co-edited with Walter-Sinnott Armstrong and Julian Savulescu), published by Oxford University Press. She has acted as an advisor to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, NICE, NIMH and other organisations. She is co-editor of the journal BioSocieties and on the editorial board of the American Journal of Bioethics-Neuroscience and Qualitative Psychology.

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Jayashree Dasgupta is a Senior Research Fellow at the Public Health Foundation of India. A clinical psychologist by training, she has completed her MPhil and PhD from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India; where her work focused on identification of HIV associated neurocognitive disorders. She is keen to expand the use of neuropsychological assessments to bridge detection gaps in psychiatric conditions using mobile technologies. A part of the translational neuroscience research team, her work involves development of mobile platforms for detection of childhood autism and computerized cognitive assessments for evaluation of preschool readiness. She also leads a project evaluating scale-up of a peer delivered intervention for maternal depression, under the National Institute of Mental Health supported South Asian Hub for Advocacy, Research and Education. During her association with Pearson, India, she has headed projects to standardize intelligence and dyslexia screening tests for the Indian context. She has also practiced in government hospitals and been affiliated with corporate organisations, introducing programs on stress management and performance enhancement for employees.

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Jesse Summers is a Lecturing Fellow at Duke University. His research agenda is focused most directly on philosophical issues surrounding irrationality and its moral implications. His major research projects are on rationalization, anxiety and anxiety disorders, and on conditions that impede rational agency, like addiction, compulsion, and poverty. With Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, he is working on an extended project on Scrupulosity, a religious or morality-focused form of OCD.

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João Ascenso is a Social Psychologist with extensive experience in all areas of organisational behaviour training and consultancy, having worked at large multinational CEGOS Group. His main areas of expertise include all models of leader leadership, emotional and social intelligence, persuasion skills, decision making, and more. He attended an Introductory Autumn Course in Cognitive Neuroscience in Oxford University in 2006 and was accepted in M.Sc. Programme in Neuroscience in the King ́s College, University of London in 2008. He then moved to work with Dr. Jorge Moll Neto, a Director of D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR) in Rio de Janeiro. Since 2012 he has attended a Ph.D. programme in Neuroscience in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in partnership with IDOR. His Ph.D. thesis is called: A Double Dissociation of Automatic Moral and Non-Moral Social Value Representations within the Human Prefrontal Cortex and within the Reward System.

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Jonathan Pugh is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Applied Moral Philosophy at The University of Oxford, on the Wellcome Trust funded project "Neurointerventions in Crime Prevention: An Ethical Analysis".Prior to this, he completed a DPhil project at Oxford University entitled, “Autonomy, Rationality and Contemporary Bioethics”.His research interests lie primarily in issues concerning personal autonomy in practical ethics, particularly topics pertaining to informed consent. He has also written on the ethics of deep brain stimulation, human embryonic stem cell research, and the use of gene-editing technologies.

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Julian Savulescu's areas of research include: the ethics of genetics, especially predictive genetic testing, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, prenatal testing, behavioural genetics, genetic enhancement, gene therapy. Research ethics, especially ethics of embryo research, including embryonic stem cell research. New forms of reproduction, including cloning and assisted reproduction. Medical ethics, including end of life decision-making, resource allocation, consent, confidentiality, decision-making involving incompetent people, and other areas. Sports ethics. The analytic philosophical basis of practical ethics. Julian is a founder member of the Hinxton Group.

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Leonie Welberg is a Senior Editor at Nature. She did her MSc at Leiden University and received a PhD from Edinburgh University. Following postdoctoral training in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University, she joined Nature Publishing Group in 2006. After 8 years as Associate Editor, Senior Editor and Acting Chief Editor at Nature Reviews Neuroscience, she moved to Nature in November 2014. Leonie handles manuscripts in the areas of psychiatry and mental health, neurodevelopmental disorders, sensory and motor neuroscience, reward, decision-making and executive function.

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Marcelo de Araujo is Associate Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, and Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is also a researcher at the CNPq (Brazilian Research Council). He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Konstanz, Germany, in 2002. He has received awards to research moral contractarianism and human enhancement at various institutions, including the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics in Oxford. He is a principal investigator of the research project “Rethinking legal and moral responsibility;” His current research focuses mainly on the ethical and legal implications of the use of technologies for human enhancement. Marcelo has published in peer reviewed journals in English, German, and Portuguese on topics related to ethics, philosophy of law, political philosophy, and the history of philosophy.

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Dr. Martha Farah is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, founding Director of Penn’s Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and now directs the Center for Neuroscience & Society. She has a doctorate in Psychology from Harvard University and undergraduate degrees in Metallurgy and Philosophy from MIT. Her current research interests include the effects of childhood poverty on brain development, the expanding use of neuropsychiatric medications by healthy people for brain enhancement, novel uses of brain imaging, in e.g. legal, diagnostic and educational contexts, and the many ways in which neuroscience is changing the way we think of ourselves as physical, mental, moral and spiritual beings. She is an elected fellow of the Hastings Center for Bioethics (2014), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007), the Association for Psychological Science (2007),the Society of Experimental Psychologists (2005),and the Cognitive Science Society (2002).She has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and 7 books, including Neuroethics: An Introduction with Readings (MIT Press) and, with Anjan Chatterjee, Neuroethics in Practice: Mind, Medicine and Society (Oxford University Press).

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Professor Martin Delatycki is the Director of Clinical Genetics at Austin Health and is Director of the Bruce Lefroy Centre at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. Martin trained in medicine at University of Melbourne before undertaking training in paediatrics and clinical genetics. Martin has clinical and research interests in genetic screening, neurogenetics and ethical aspects of clinical genetics. He has published over 200 manuscripts. Martin’s neurogenetic research focus is on Friedreich ataxia, Huntington disease and gene discovery in the area of brain disorders. He has published a number of papers examining ethical issues related to genetic testing.

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Meghana Vagwala is an Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholar at Duke University. She is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in “Body, Brain, and Mind,”a unique interdisciplinary degree designed with the guidance of Dr. Walter Sinnott Armstrong. Her program uses neuroscience, philosophy, global health, and other fields to investigate body-mind synchrony and its influence on brain health. At Duke, she is a research assistant in the Laboratory for Psychiatric Neuroengineering, studying cognitive functioning in mice with a mutation in actin-related protein 2/3 (Arp2/3), a genetic model for schizophrenia. This summer she is interning in the Oxford Department of Psychiatry under Dr. Ilina Singh, writing a paper on cognitive enhancement, analysing social and cultural factors that influence British students’ attitudes and practices.

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Dr. Mohammad M. Herzallah is a Palestinian cognitive neuroscientist and physician. He obtained his M.D. degree from Al-Quds University from Al-Quds University, Palestine in 2009, and his Ph.D. in behavioral and neural sciences from Rutgers University, USA in 2015. He is the founder and director of the Palestinian Neuroscience Initiative at Al-Quds University in Palestine. Dr. Herzallah’s research focuses on the neuro-cognitive correlates of major depressive disorder, the leading mental health problem in Palestine affecting approximately 36% of Palestinians. Dr. Herzallah’s unique research can further the understanding of major depressive disorder, which can help millions of patients worldwide. In 2011, Dr. Herzallah received the Best Young Arab Neuroscientist Award from the Society for Arab Neuroscientists. In 2013, Dr. Herzallah received the prestigious TED fellowship, and he was selected among the 500 most influential Arabs in the world.

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Moheb Costandi trained as a developmental and molecular neurobiologist and now works as a freelance writer specialising in neuroscience. He has written for the BBC, Nature, New Scientist, Science, and Scientific American, among others, and also writes the Neurophilosophy blog, which is hosted by The Guardian. Costandi has written extensively about neuroethics, and has served on the Board of Directors of the International Neuroethics Society since March 2014. He is the author of NEUROPLASTICITY (forthcoming from MIT Press) and 50 HUMAN BRAIN IDEAS YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW (Quercus, 2013).

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Dr. Mustafa M. Husain is Vice Chair for Faculty, Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Internal Medicine, Lydia Bryant Test distinguished Professor in Psychiatry Research, Director of the Neuromodulation Research & Therapeutics Program (NRTP) at the University of Texas Southwesten. Dr. Husain graduated from Dow Medical College, Pakistan, received his initial training at Stanford, and completed his residency at the USC,SC and continued his research and geriatric fellowships at Duke University. Dr Husain has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and authored several book chapters, including chapter on ECT and Other Neurostimulation Therapies in Kaplan and Saddock’s Textbook of General Psychiatry. He is on the Editorial Board of J.ECT and Triage Editor for J.AAGP. Dr Husain interests include aging, geriatric issues,and novel treatments for major depressive disorder. He was Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Hawaii, Duke University-NUS Singapore and distinguished Lecturer at Oxford. He has served as Grant Reviewer on NIMH study sections, NIMH Conte Centers review panels, Welcome Trust, London, UK and Canadian Alcohol and Mental Health (CAMH) Grant Reviews.

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Nell Butler is joint-CEO of Riverdog production. She has made a huge range of popular programmes across all channels. Most famous for creating the long-running hit Come Dine With Me, she specialises in fact ent formats that explore the human condition. Her formats include House Gift, House Guest, Auction Party and The Devil’s Dinner Party. From her early days in regional news through Dispatches, Airline and Celebrities Behaving Badly, Nell has been immersed in television production for well over two decades.

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Nikolas Rose is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Kings College London. He is founder and co-editor of BioSocieties: an interdisciplinary journal for social studies of the life sciences.His most recent books include The Politics of Life Itself : Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century, Governing The Present (written with Peter Miller) Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind (written with Joelle Abi-Rached).He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Society and Ethics Division of the Human Brain Project and is responsible for their Foresight Laboratory. He is the lead investigator in several collaborations with Imperial College, London to develop research and capacity in synthetic biology, and is currently engaged in comparative research on mental health and migration in megacities. He was lead partner in BIONET, examining the ethical governance of research in the life sciences in China and Europe. He is Chair of the Neuroscience and Society Network and has worked in various capacities with the Academy of Medical Science and the Wellcome Trust, and with the Royal Society, where he is currently a member of the Science Policy Committee.

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Dr. Pamela Y. Collins is Associate Director for Special Populations at NIMH and director of the Offices for Research on Disparities & Global Mental Health(GMH)and Rural Mental Health Research. Dr. Collins an editor of the Lancet series on GMH, a leader of the Grand Challenges in GMH initiative, and led the development of the 2013 PLoS Medicine Policy Forum series on global perspectives for integrating mental health. Dr. Collins’s research focused on the intersections of HIV care and the mental health needs of women of color in the US, Latin America,and Sub-Saharan Africa. She serves asco-lead on NIMH efforts to integrate mental health care and AIDS treatment programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Collins obtained her M.D. from Cornell University,her Master of Public Health from Columbia University, trained in psychiatry and completed a NIMH post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University /New York State Psychiatric Institute and studied cultural psychiatry and applied medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School. Until 2012 she retained faculty appointments at Columbia University in the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH) and the Department of Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she was an associate professor.

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Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D. is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics, the Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics, a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Sociology, and the Director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University. Dr. Wolpe also serves as the first Senior Bioethicist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), where he is responsible for formulating policy on bioethical issues and safeguarding research subjects. He is Co-Editor of the American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), the premier scholarly journal in bioethics, and Editor of AJOB Neuroscience, and sits on the editorial boards of over a dozen professional journals in medicine and ethics. Dr Wolpe is a past President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities; a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the country’s oldest medical society; a Fellow of the Hastings Center, the oldest bioethics institute in America; and was the first National Bioethics Advisor to Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Dr. Wolpe is the author of over 125 articles, editorials, and book chapters in sociology, medicine, and bioethics, and has contributed to a variety of encyclopedias on bioethical issues.

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Reinhard Merkel studied law, philosophy, and German literature at the universities of Bochum, Heidelberg, and Munich. He is a professor of criminal law and legal philosophy at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Law. Besides the doctrines and basic principles of domestic as well as international criminal law, he specializes in the philosophical foundations of law, applied legal ethics, law and ethics in medicine and in the neurosciences, and the philosophy of mind. He published several books and ca. 200 articles on subjects of all of these fields. In 2012 he was appointed to the German National Ethics Council by the German Government, and was reappointed in April 2016 to serve for a second turn of four more years. Since 2010 he has been a member of the German National Academy of Sciences "Leopoldina", section "Philosophy of Science".

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Dr Sarah Caddick is Neuroscience Adviser to Lord Sainsbury of Turville and his charitable organisation, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. She is a neuroscientist who has held leadership roles in academia and private/public grant-making organisations where she has been responsible for the development, oversight and restructuring of strategic, programmatic, operational and grant-making activities across a broad range of scientific disciplines. She currently serves on a number of boards, including the Global Council for Brain Research (World Economic Forum), the Science Museum (London), WiredDifferently.org, and Autistica. She is a former guest curator and presenter for TEDGlobal and the Skoll World Forum.

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Steven E. Hyman, M.D. is Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research and a core faculty member at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. From 2001 to 2011, he served as Provost of Harvard University, the University’s chief academic officer. From 1996 to 2001, he served as director of the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), where he emphasized investment in neuroscience and emerging genetic technologies. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine where he serves on the Council and chairs the Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served as President of the Society for Neuroscience and was founding president of the International Neuroethics Society.

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Theresa S. Betancourt, ScD, MA, is Associate Professor of Child Health and Human Rights in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Research Program on Children and Global Adversity (RPCGA). Her central research interests include consequences of concentrated adversity, resilience and protective processes, refugee families, and applied cross-cultural mental health research. She is Principal Investigator of study of war-affected youth in Sierra Leone which gave rise to group interventions in collaboration with the World Bank and Government of Sierra Leone. She has developed and evaluated the impact of a Family Strengthening Intervention for HIV-affected children and families and is also investigating the impact of a home-visiting early childhood development (ECD) intervention to promote enriched parent-child relationships and prevent violence in Rwanda. Domestically, she is engaged in community-based participatory research on family-based prevention of emotional and behavioral problems in refugee children and adolescents resettled in the U.S. She has published recent articles in Child Development, The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Social Science and Medicine, JAMA Psychiatry, and PLOS One.

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Dr. Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath obtained her Ph.D from the University of Mysore. She completed her post-doctoral training at the NIH in America and then joined the Department of Neurochemistry at National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Bangalore. The Indian Government’s Department of Biotechnology sought her out to help establish the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), which she chaired until 2009. She then returned to Bangalore at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) as Chair of the newly created Centre for Neuroscience. The goal of her laboratory is to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disorders in order to discover drug targets and develop disease-modifying therapies. She leads a program grant on Alzheimer’s disease funded by the Tata Trust and is currently establishing the Centre for Brain Research, focusing on aging brain at IISc through a generous gift from Pratiksha foundation. She is an elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India National Academy of Medical Sciences,Indian Academy of Neurosciences and Third World Academy of Sciences. She is a recipient of S.S. Bhatnagar award, Omprakash Bhasin Award,the J.C. Bose National Fellowship (, S.S. Bhatnagar Medal, INSA and Padma Shri.

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Vikram Patel is a Professor of International Mental Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow in Clinical Science at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK). He is the Joint Director of the School’s Centre for the Control of Chronic Conditions, based at the Public Health Foundation. He is a co-founder of Sangath, a community based NGO head-quartered in Goa. He is a Fellow of the UK's Academy of Medical Sciences and serves on the WHO’s Expert Advisory Group for Mental Health; he was a member of the Mental Health Policy Group of the Government of India and serves on the Institute Body of the National Institute for Mental Health and Neurosciences, India. He is a recipient of the Chalmers Medal from the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine, the Sarnat Medal from the US Institute of Medicine’s, and the Chanchlani Global Health Research Award from McMaster University.

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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He holds secondary appointments in Duke’s Law School, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Center for Interdisciplinary Decision Sciences. He is a Partner Investigator at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and a Research Scientist with The Mind Research Network in New Mexico. He has published widely on ethics, empirical moral psychology and neuroscience, philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of law, epistemology, philosophy of religion, and informal logic. His current work focuses on moral psychology and brain science as well as uses of neuroscience in legal systems. He is writing books on Scrupulosity and on freedom and moral responsibility.