Beyond Bioethics: A Proposal for Modernizing the Regulation of Human Biotechnologies

Franco Furger is President of Politik- & Technologie-Beratung, a consulting firm specializing in science and technology policy based in Lucerne, Switzerland. Between 2001 and 2004 he was Research Professor at the School of Advanced International studies in Washington DC (SAIS). He holds an MA in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in environmental sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. He is the author of several articles and three books.

Francis Fukuyama is Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, and the director of SAIS' International Development program. He is also chairman of the editorial board of a new magazine, The American Interest. He is the author of numerous books and articles, notably including The End of History and the Last Man (1992), Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (1995), and Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (2002). He received his B.A. from Cornell University, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation from 1979-1980, then again from 1983-89, and from 1995-96. From 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. From 2001- 2005 Dr. Fukuyama was a member of the President's Council on Bioethics.