Professor Roger Brownsword

Biography

Roger Brownsword has been a member of the UK NSC since 2010. He is an expert in law, regulation and technology, biolaw and bioethics, and commercial and contract law. He holds professorial positions in law at King’s College London, where he is director of the Centre for Technology, Ethics, Law and Society (TELOS), and at Bournemouth University. He is an honorary professor in law at the University of Sheffield and is currently a visiting professor at City University Hong Kong.

In addition to serving as a specialist adviser to parliamentary committees, Roger has been a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (2004 to 2010), chaired the Ethics and Governance Council for UK Biobank (2011to 2015), and has been on working parties in the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society (most recently the Working Party on Machine Learning).