Baroness Onora O'Neill FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1993
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Politics
Summary
Onora O’Neill combines writing on political philosophy and ethics with a range of public activities. She comes from Northern Ireland and has worked mainly in Britain and the US. She was Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge from 1992-2006, President of the British Academy from 2005-9, chaired the Nuffield Foundation from 1998-2010, has been a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 2000 (Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve). She has chaired the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission from 2012-16 and served on of the Medical Research Council and the Banking Standards Board until 2018. In 2017, she was awarded the Holberg Prize and the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. She lectures and writes on justice and ethics, accountability and trust, justice and borders, as well as on the future of universities, the quality of legislation and the ethics of communication.
Current post
University of Cambridge Professor Emeritus
2003 -
Past appointments
The British Academy President
2005 - 2009
University of Cambridge Honorary Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy
2003 -
Newnham College University of Cambridge Principal
1992 - 2006
University of Essex Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader then Professor
1977 - 1992
Columbia University, New York Assistant, then Associate Professor, Barnard College
1970 - 1977
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Publications
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Moral philosophy and its history; Kantian ethics; practical reason; the philosophy of action; personal identity; the ethics of our treatment of animals
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Political science; elections and parties, electoral systems; state theory, political power and core executives; modern bureaucratic theory, digital change and IT/ innovation in public services; higher education and academic authoring
