Prof Robert Cook-Deegan is a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society (College of Global Futures), and the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University. He previously directed Duke’s Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy 2002-2016, and taught in Duke’s and Stanford’s in-Washington programs. Before Duke he worked at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine 1991-2002; National Center for Human Genome Research (NIH) 1989-1990; and the congressional Office of Technology Assessment 1982-1988. He obtained his MD from the University of Colorado in 1979; and a BA in chemistry (magna cum laude) from Harvard in 1975.  He is the author of The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome and over 350 other publications.