Nigel Cameron

Biographer, these days. Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General, UMass Press. Current projects: Ruth Barnhouse, Sylvia Plath’s psychiatrist; group biography of teachers who made Bradford Grammar one of the best.

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

About

Biographer Nigel Cameron is President Emeritus of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET) in Washington, DC, which he founded in 2007 and led for ten years, former Technology Editor at UnHerd.com and Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Science and Society at the University of Ottawa, Canada. A native of the UK, he is also a citizen of the United States and Belgium. Speaking is managed by ATG│Chartwell. US enquiries [email protected]; for international: [email protected] A graduate of Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and the Edinburgh Business School, before founding C-PET he was Research Professor & Associate Dean at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), where he established the first US university center on nanotechnology & its social implications, and led a multi-sectoral study of the implications of diabetes. He has written widely on the policy impacts of emerging technologies, including: Innovation President (Amazon Kindle), The New Medicine, & Nanoscale: Issues for the Nano Century, and Will Robots Take Your Job? A Plea for Consensus (Polity Press / John Wiley). Also: the first biography of Dr. C. Everett Koop (2025). He has been a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen Global Health Forum, the STARS business leaders' symposium, and Economist conferences on innovation and the digital economy. He has also served on US delegations to the UN and UNESCO, and was invited to participate in the State Department-led scenario planning Project Horizon, and served as an adviser to several technology companies.

Experience

  • Author at Current project: First biography of Sylvia Plath's psychiatrist, Ruth Barnhouse
    Jan 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

  • Biographer at Self-employed
    Jan 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

  • Senior Fellow at University of Ottawa Institute for Science, Society and Policy
    Sep 2017 - Feb 2026 · 8 yrs 6 mos

  • Member, Board Of Directors at Genesis Systems (USA) LLC - Technologies That Transform
    Sep 2016 - Jan 2025 · 8 yrs 5 mos

  • Conference Chair at Whitehall Media
    Jan 2020 - Feb 2024 · 4 yrs 2 mos