Roberto Andorno

Roberto Andorno is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics of the University of Zurich (Switzerland). Originally from Argentina, Dr Andorno has been a member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee (IBC) between 1998 and 2005. He received his doctorates in law from the Universities of Buenos Aires (1991) and Paris XII (1994) and has published extensively in the field of international biomedical law, including articles and book chapters on the human genome and human rights, ethics and medically assisted reproduction, the notion of human dignity, genetic privacy, population biobanks, the moral and legal status of the human embryo, human cloning, the precautionary principle, the UNESCO Declarations relating to bioethics and the European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine.