"Contributors" [2010] ELECD 706; in Hodge, A. Graeme; Bowman, M. Diana; Maynard, D. Andrew (eds), "International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010)

Book Title: International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies

Editor(s): Hodge, A. Graeme; Bowman, M. Diana; Maynard, D. Andrew

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848446731

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 16

Extract:

Contributors


Prof Kenneth W. Abbott is Professor of Law and Willard H. Pedrick
Distinguished Research Scholar in the Sandra Day O'Connor College of
Law at Arizona State University, USA. He is a Fellow of the Center for
Law, Science and Innovation and the Center for Transnational Law and
Regulatory Governance. He is also Professor of Global Studies in the
School of Politics and Global Studies. Abbott's teaching and research
focus is on the interdisciplinary study of international law and interna-
tional relations, including public and private institutions, environmental
issues, global health, governance of science and technology, development
policy and international trade and economic law.

Dr Robert J. Aitken is Director of Strategic Consulting at the Institute
of Occupational Medicine (IOM) in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is
Director of the SAFENANO initiative. SAFENANO is one of the UK's
Nanotechnology Centres of Excellence and has the unique remit to inter-
pret and disseminate the emerging health safety and environmental infor-
mation about nanoparticles to help industry understand and mitigate the
potential risks. Aitken's main scientific interests are in exposure and risk
assessment of particles and he has contributed more than 50 publications
on these issues. He leads IOM's work programme on nanotechnology risk
which currently encompasses eight major EU FP7 framework projects, a
series of major public reviews for government departments in the UK and
elsewhere as well as other research or consultancy activities. He leads two
projects for the European Commission on integration of nanotechnology
issues into ...