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6th
EMBO/EMBL Conference on Science and Society
Science and Security
Calum
Bunney
International Biometric & Authentication
Consulting (IBAC), France
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As a consultant Mr Bunney has been involved in the tracking and development
of biometric technologies and solutions since 1997. The growth of interest
in these technologies for identification and identity verification has
grown massively in this time, and Mr Bunney has worked both with developers
and users of biometrics to design and establish effective solutions.
His particular areas of expertise include biometric evaluation and development
for the aviation, transportation, and national identity markets. He
has managed a number of projects in these fields, including recent work
within the UK’s National Identity Card Programme.
Mr Bunney was editor of industry journal Biometric Technology Today
from 1997-1999; he founded the Elsevier Biometrics Conference in 1998;
and he has authored numerous articles and reports on biometrics and
other ID technologies.
Mr Bunney holds an honours degree in Philosophy from King’s
College, University of London.
Malcolm
Dando
Professor, Department of Peace Studies,
Bradford University, UK |
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Malcolm Dando is Professor of International Security in the Department
of Peace Studies at Bradford University, UK. Professor Dando trained
originally as a biologist and, after a period in Operational Research,
joined the Department of Peace Studies in 1979. In Bradford he has worked on issues
of arms control, first concentrating on nuclear arms control and then,
since 1991, increasingly on biological arms control. He was co-author of the British
Medical Association reports on Biotechnology, Weapons and Humanity. In 2002-03
Professor Dando was the International Institute for Strategic Studies Senior
Fellow at the Center for Global Security Research in Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory in California. His recent publications include “The
New Biological Weapons” (Lynne Rienner, 2001) and “Preventing
Biological Warfare” (Palgrave, 2002).
Regine
Kollek
Research Center for Biotechnology, Society and the Environment,
University of Hamburg, Germany |
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Regine Kollek, PhD, received her doctoral degree in molecular biology
from the University of Würzburg in 1979, and then spent two years
as a postdoctoral fellow at the medical school of the University of
California, San Diego. From 1981 through 1984, she was senior researcher
at the Heinrich- Pette Institute, University of Hamburg, before joining
the scientific staff of the Enquete-Commission on "Chances and
Risks of Gene-Technology" of the German parliament. In 1988 she
became a member of an interdisciplinary working group at the "Hamburg
Institute for Social Research".
Since 1995 she has been professor for Biomedical Technology Assessment
and head of a research group dedicated to the study of the social and
ethical implications of modern biotechnology in medicine at the University
of Hamburg. Since June 2001, she has been a member of the German National
Ethics Council. In March 2002, she also became a member of the UNESCO
International Ethics Committee.
Dragan
Primorac
Minister of Science, Education and Sport,
Republic of Croatia |
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A medical doctor specialized in Paediatrics, Dragan Primorac has been
Minister of Science, Education and Sport of the Republic of Croatia
since 2003. Before becoming a minister he spent some years in the USA,
first as a Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Paediatrics, University
of Connecticut, where he later became Faculty instructor. In 1994 he
was a trainee at the Division of State Police, Forensic Sciences Laboratory,
State of Connecticut. In 1997 he received professional training at the
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, DNA Identification Laboratory,
in Rockville, and at the Analytical Genetic Testing Center in Denver.
He is the co-founder of the Clinical and Forensic Genetics Department
at the Split Clinical Hospital in Croatia, which he directed from 1994
to 2003, and was Head of the European Group for Validation of new procedures
and technologies in forensic genetics in 2000. He is a member of the
American Academy of Forensic Science, the American Society for Human
Genetics, and the Croatian Society for Human Genetics. Dr Primorac’s
distinctions include the Life Time Achievement Award (awarded by the
New Haven University, Dr.H. C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science in
2002), the Contribution to the Development of Forensic Science Award
(awarded by the Connecticut State Police, Forensic Sciences Laboratory
in 1996), and the Young Investigator Award, Maurice Attie Memorial Award
(awarded by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research in 1992).
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