Professor Ben Mepham

Special Professor in Applied Bioethics: University of Nottingham; Visiting Professor in Bioethics, University of Lincoln

Ben Mepham is a founder member of the Council and was its Executive Director for the first five years. He was formerly Director of the Centre for Applied Bioethics at the University of Nottingham, but following retirement now has honorary professorships at both Nottingham and Lincoln Universities. He was a founder member of the Government’s Biotechnology Commission and has served on several international policy committees. With an academic background in the biosciences, he has researched and taught bioethics for over 30 years. The second edition of his Bioethics: an introduction for the biosciences (OUP, 2008) provides an extensive account of the ethical matrix, a conceptual tool that he introduced in the 1990s, which has been employed by a diversity of governmental and non-governmental organisations.