Membership

Find out about the members of the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group.

Membership of the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group

The chair of the BFEG is Professor Mark Watson-Gandy.

Committee members

The following members were appointed directly to the BFEG following open competition and were reappointed from March 2023 for a further 3 years.

  • Dr Nóra Ni Loideain, Director and Senior Lecturer in Law of the Information Law and Policy Centre, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

  • Professor Richard Guest, Professor of Biometric Technologies, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton

  • Professor Emeritus Charles Raab, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh and Turing Fellow, Alan Turing Institute

The following new member was appointed directly to the BFEG following open competition on 10 January 2022.

  • Professor Niamh Nic Daeid - Professor of Forensic Science and Director of the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Dundee

The following new member was appointed directly to the BFEG following open competition on 14 December 2021

  • Professor Ann-Maree Farrell, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh Law School

The following new members were appointed directly to the BFEG following open competition on 20 October 2021.

  • David Lewis, former Deputy Chief Constable of Dorset and Devon & Cornwall Police, and previous National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for ethics and national lead for forensics performance and standards - now undertaking a portfolio of roles in governance, regulation, ethics and leadership development

  • Professor Sarah Morris, Professor of Digital Forensics at the University of Southampton

The following members were appointed directly to the BFEG following open competition and were re-appointed from March 2021 for a further three years.

  • Professor Mark Jobling, Professor of Genetics at the University of Leicester

  • Professor Thomas Edward Sorell, Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the University of Warwick

  • Professor Denise Syndercombe-Court, Professor of Forensic Genetics at Kings College London

  • Dr Peter Waggett, Director of Research at IBM

Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group meeting minutes