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concerning genetic testing and discrimination, the ethics of human genetics research, human stem cell research, and ethical
and legal issues in neuroscience, among other things. He chairs the California Advisory Committee on Human Embryonic
Stem Cell Research and the steering committee of the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics. He also directs the
Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Stanford Program on Stem Cells in Society.
“National Security and Moral Cognition: Issues in Neuroethics and Defense Policy”
William Casebeer, a Major in the United States Air Force, is the Chief of Eurasian Intelligence Analysis at NATO Military
Headquarters. Dr. Casebeer is a career intelligence analyst and soon-to-be Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force. This past
year, he was a project fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where
he focused on ethics and counter-terrorism policy. He has published in journals ranging from “Nature Reviews Neuroscience”
to “International Relations,” is author of “Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism, and Moral Cognition,” and coauthor
of “Warlords Rising: Confronting Violent Non-State Actors”.
“Opportunities and Challenges for Behavorial Neuroscience in Federal Counter-Terrorism Science Policy”
Susan Brandon is the Behavioral and Social Science Principal at the Mitre Corporation. In the aftermath of September 11,
2001, Dr. Brandon served as APA’s senior scientist, and later as Assistant Director of Social, Behavioral, and Educational
Sciences for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. During her tenure, Susan Brandon was instrumental
in convening a unique series of workshops bringing social scientists together with operational personnel to discuss unmet
needs and research opportunities on topics that included the social psychology of counter-terrorism, the detection of
deception, the phenomenology of intuition, and suicide bombings. Dr. Brandon nurtured a Cabinet-level effort to establish
research priorities in the social, behavioral and economic sciences for combating terrorism on behalf of the National
Science and Technology Council.
“A Washington Perspective on Neuroscience Applications in Homeland Security”
Philip J. Crowley is a Senior Fellow and Director of National Defense and Homeland Security at the Center for American
Progress. During the Clinton administration, Mr. Crowley was Special Assistant to the President of the United States for
National Security Affairs, serving as Senior Director of Public Affairs for the National Security Council. Prior to that, he was
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. He is a veteran of Operations Desert Shield and Desert
Storm. During the Kosovo conflict, he was temporarily assigned to work with then NATO Secretary General Javier Solana.
Another event that the IGL hosted was a book signing and lecture for Padraig O’Malley’s Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj
and the Struggle for South Africa. The lecture and discussion featured both Padraig and Mac Maharaj, a 2006 recipient of
the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award and a participant in the 2006 EPIIC symposium. Padraig O’Malley is the Moakley
Professor of International Peace and Reconciliation at The McCormack School of Graduate Studies at the University of
Massachusetts, Boston and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Development. He is the author of a number of
books, including The Uncivil Wars: Ireland Today and Biting At the Grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes and the Politics of Despair.
He is the co-editor of Sticks and Stones: Living with Uncertain Wars. Mac Maharaj was a member of Nelson Mandela’s inner
circle during the days of resistance in South Africa. In 1977, after spending 12 years in prison on Robben Island, he was
appointed secretary of the Internal Political and Reconstruction Department of the ANC. He served on the Revolutionary
Council and National Executive Committee of the ANC, an underground program of armed resistance against the apartheid
government. After Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, Mr. Maharaj was a lead negotiator for the ANC in
talks with the National Party government and Joint Secretary of the Transitional Executive Council, overseeing South Africa’s
transition to democracy. President Mandela appointed Mr. Maharaj Minister of Transport in 1994.
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