Bartha Maria Knoppers, PhD. (Comparative Medical Law), Full Professor, Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine and Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University. Chair: Ethics and Governance Committee of the ICGC (2009-2017); Co-Chair; Regulatory and Ethics Workstream of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH Co-Founder) (2013-2019); Galton Lecturer (2017); Co-Chair, Ethics Working Group of the Human Cell Atlas (2018-2020). Appointed to the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing (2020); Officer of the Order of Canada and of Quebec. Awards: four Doctorates Honoris Causa, Fellow Hastings Center (bioethics) (2000); American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002); Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2005); Royal Society of Canada (2017); Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research (2019); Till and McCulloch Award for science policy (2020); and Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Bioethics Society (2021).