[1] Crossbench.
Father: Con Douglas Walter O'Neill
High School: St Paul's Girls' School, London, England
University: BA, Oxford University
University: PhD, Harvard University
Professor: Barnard College
Professor: Philosophy, University of Essex (1977-92)
Professor: Philosophy, Cambridge University (1992-)
Administrator: Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge University (1992-2006)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Foreign Honorary Member (1993)
American Philosophical Society Foreign Member (2003)
Aristotelian Society President (1988-89)
Austrian Academy of Sciences Foreign Honorary Member (2002)
British Academy President (2005-09)
The Ditchley Foundation Trustee
Institute for Advanced Study Berlin Fellow (1989-90)
Norwegian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member (2006)
Nuffield Foundation Chairman (1997-)
Royal Irish Academy Honorary Member (2003)
Royal Society Honorary Fellow (2007)
Sense About Science Trustee (2002-)
Commander of the British Empire
Life Peerage Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve (1999)
Author of books:
Acting on Principle (1975)
Faces of Hunger: An Essay on Poverty, Development and Justice (1986)
Constructions of Reason: Explorations of Kant's Practical Philosophy (1989)
Towards Justice and Virtue: A Constructive Account of Practical Reasoning (1996)
Bounds of Justice (2000)
Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics (2002)
Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics (2007, with Neil Manson)