20th anniversary of the Oviedo Convention - conference speakers

Conference moderators

Beatrice Ioan

(Romania)

Chair of the Committee on Bioethics (DH-BIO)

Tesi Aschan

(Sweden)

Legal Adviser, The National Board of Health and Welfare

Petra De Sutter

(Belgium, PACE)

Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Rapporteur on the use of new genetic technologies

Jean-Yves Le Déaut

(France)

Former member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Rapporteur on technological convergence, artificial intelligence and human rights

Milan Macek

(Czech Republic)

Head of Department of Biology and Medical Genetics, Charles University, Prague

Miroslav Mikolasik

(Slovakia, European Parliament)

Member of the European Parliament and Chairman of the EPP Working Group on Bioethics and Human Dignity

Ina Verzivolli

(Albania)

Chair of the Council of Europe Ad hoc Committee for the Rights of the Child (CAHENF)

Christiane Woopen

(Germany)

Chairperson of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, European Commission

Conference speakers

Radek Policar

(Czech Republic)

Deputy Minister for Legislation and Legal Affairs

Gabriella Battani Dragoni

(Council of Europe)

Council of Europe Deputy Secretary General

Nada Al-Nashif

(UNESCO)

UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences

Ludger Honnefelder

(Germany)

Professor emeritus of Philosophy, Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Bonn; former member of the Council of Europe Steering Committee on Bioethics (CDBI)

Sheila Jasanoff

(USA)

Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University

Octavi Quintana

(Spain)

Director of the Partnership on Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA), European Commission; former Chair of the Council of Europe Steering Committee on Bioethics (CDBI)

Zvonko Magic

(Serbia)

Chair of the Preparatory Group for the Conference

Rogelio Altisent

(Spain)

Director of academic projects on the Clinical Ethics and Professionalism Chair, University of Zaragoza

Ewa Bartnik

(Poland)

Professor of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw

Hans-Jorg Behrens

(Germany)

Vice-Chair of the Council of Europe Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH)

Nikola Biller-Andorno

(Switzerland)

Director of the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and history of medicine, Center for Medical Humanities, University of Zürich

Anne Cambon-Thomsen

(France)

Emeritus Research Director, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse; member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, European Commission

Ana Sofia Carvalho

(Portugal)

Director of the Bioethics Institute, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (IB-UCP)

Antonio Cherubini

(Italy)

Director, Geriatrics and Geriatric Emergency Care, IRCCCS-INRCA, Ancona

Jean-François Delfraissy

(France)

President of the National Ethics Committee

Marit Frogner

(Norway)

Member of the European Committee of Social Rights (Rapporteur for Article 11 of the European Social Charter)

Lyalya Gabbasova

(Russian Federation)

Adviser to the Health Minister

Bartha Maria Knoppers

(Canada)

Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal

Paula Kokkonen

(Finland)

former emeritus Chair person of the National Advisory Board on Health Care Ethics, former Chair of the Council of Europe Steering Committee on Bioethics (CDBI)

Brigitte Konz

(Luxembourg)

Chair of the steering Committee for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CDDH)

Ton Liefaard

(Netherlands)

Professor of Children's Rights / UNICEF Chair in Children’s Rights; Leiden University, Law School

Liliane Maury-Pasquier

(Switzerland)

Chair of the PACE Committee on Rules of Procedure

Jonathan Montgomery

(United Kindom)

Professor of Health Care Law, University College, London; member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, European Commission

Santiago Oñate Laborde

(Mexico)

Permanent Observer to the Council of Europe, Mission of Mexico to the Council of Europe

Alessandra Pierucci

(Italy)

Chair of the Council of Europe Consultative Committee of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (T-PD)

Antoinette Rouvroy

(Belgium)

The Research Centre in Information, Law and Society (CRIDS), Namur University; member of the Ethics Advisory Group of European Data Protection Supervisor

Ucha Vakhania

(Georgia)

Executive Director of the “Coalition Homecare in Georgia”

David Winickoff

(USA, OECD)

Senior Policy Analyst, Secretary of the Working Party on Bio-, Nano- and Converging Technologies (BNCT)

Kavot Zillén

(Sweden)

LL.D and postdoctoral researcher, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University

Conference rapporteurs

Siobhan O'Sullivan

(Ireland)

Lecturer in Healthcare Ethics and Law, Royal College of Surgeons; Vice Chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, European Commission