From the Independent Online Edition:

“Born in Northern Ireland in 1941, Onora O’Neill is one of Britain’s leading philosophers. She studied at Oxford and Harvard and has written widely on political philosophy and ethics, international justice, bioethics and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. A former philosophy professor, she is now principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. She was created a life peer in 1999 and was a member of the Select Committee on Stem Cell Research. She also chairs the Nuffield Foundation.”