1. Onora Sylvia O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve was born on 23 August 1941 and is a British philosopher and a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
18 Facts About Onora O'Neill
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Onora Sylvia O'Neill was born on 23 August 1941 in Aughafatten.
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Onora O'Neill went on to complete a doctorate at Harvard University, with John Rawls as supervisor.
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Onora O'Neill is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, a former President of the British Academy and chaired the Nuffield Foundation.
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Onora O'Neill's work has earned her numerous honours and awards, including the million-dollar Berggruen Prize.
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Onora O'Neill has written widely on political philosophy and ethics, international justice, bioethics and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
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Across various works, Onora O'Neill has defended and applied a constructivist interpretation of Kantian ethics heavily influenced by, and yet critical of, the work of John Rawls, emphasising the importance of trust, consent and respect for autonomy in a just society.
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Onora O'Neill has been President of the Aristotelian Society, a member of the Animal Procedures Committee, chair of Nuffield Council on Bioethics, a member and then acting chair of the Human Genetics Advisory Commission and a member of the select committee on BBC Charter Review.
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Onora O'Neill is presently chair of the Nuffield Foundation, a trustee of Sense about Science, a trustee of the Ditchley Foundation, and a trustee of the Gates Cambridge Trust.
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Onora O'Neill served as President of the British Academy between 2005 and 2009.
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Onora O'Neill is on the Advisory Board of Incentives for Global Health, the NGO formed to develop the Health Impact Fund proposal.
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Onora O'Neill is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society, and Hon.
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Onora O'Neill is an elected fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.
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In 2007, O'Neill became a Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Onora O'Neill is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of London, an honour awarded in 2009.
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Onora O'Neill was appointed a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to philosophy and public policy.
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In 2014, Onora O'Neill was elected to the German order Pour le merite fur Wissenschaften und Kunste.
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In 2021, O'Neill received an honorary doctorate from the University of Antwerp.