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Onora O'Neill (Onora Sylvia O'Neill) was born on 23 August, 1941 in Aughafatten, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, is a British philosopher & college principal. Discover Onora O'Neill's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

Popular As Onora Sylvia O'Neill
Occupation Philosopher and politician
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 23 August, 1941
Birthday 23 August
Birthplace Aughafatten, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Nationality Ireland

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1941

Onora Sylvia O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, (born 23 August 1941) is a British philosopher and a crossbench member of the House of Lords.

Onora Sylvia O'Neill was born on 23 August 1941 in Aughafatten.

The daughter of Sir Con O'Neill, she was educated partly in Germany and at St Paul's Girls' School, London, before studying philosophy, psychology and physiology at Somerville College, Oxford.

She went on to complete a doctorate at Harvard University, with John Rawls as supervisor.

1970

During the 1970s, she taught at Barnard College, the women's college in Columbia University, New York City.

1977

In 1977, she returned to Britain and took up a post at the University of Essex; she was Professor of Philosophy there when she became Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge in 1992.

1982

Currently, she is the president of the Society for Applied Philosophy, a society founded in 1982 with the aim of promoting philosophical study and research that has a direct bearing on areas of practical concern.

1988

O'Neill has been President of the Aristotelian Society (1988 to 1989), a member of the Animal Procedures Committee (1990 to 1994), chair of Nuffield Council on Bioethics (1996 to 1998), a member and then acting chair of the Human Genetics Advisory Commission (1996 to 1999) and a member of the select committee on BBC Charter Review.

1993

She is also a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2002), a Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society (2003), and Hon. Member Royal Irish Academy (2003), a Foreign Member of the Leopoldina (2004) and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences (2006) and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

She is an elected fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.

1997

She is presently chair of the Nuffield Foundation (since 1997), a trustee of Sense about Science (since 2002), a trustee of the Ditchley Foundation, and a trustee of the Gates Cambridge Trust.

1999

In 1999, she was created a life peer as Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, of The Braid in the County of Antrim, and in 2007 was elected an Honorary FRS.

2004

From 2004 to 2006, she was President of the British Philosophical Association.

In 2004 she was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Letters) from the University of Bath.

2005

She is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, a former President of the British Academy (2005–2009) and chaired the Nuffield Foundation (1998–2010).

She also served as President of the British Academy between 2005 and 2009.

She is on the Advisory Board of Incentives for Global Health, the NGO formed to develop the Health Impact Fund proposal.

2006

Until October 2006, she was the Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, and she was chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission until April 2016.

O'Neill's work has earned her numerous honours and awards, including the million-dollar Berggruen Prize.

O'Neill has written widely on political philosophy and ethics, international justice, bioethics and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.

Across various works, O'Neill has defended and applied a constructivist interpretation of Kantian ethics heavily influenced by, and yet critical of, the work of John Rawls, emphasising the importance of trust, consent and respect for autonomy in a just society.

She has written extensively about trust, noting "that people often choose to rely on the very people whom they claimed not to trust" and suggesting that we "need to free professionals and the public service to serve the public...to work towards more intelligent forms of accountability...[and] to rethink a media culture in which spreading suspicion has become a routine activity".

2007

In 2007, O'Neill became a Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society.

O'Neill also received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2007, and from Harvard in 2010.

2009

She is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of London, an honour awarded in 2009.

2012

In October 2012, she was nominated as the next Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and confirmed as such in January 2013.

2013

In 2013, she held the Spinoza Chair of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.

2014

O'Neill was appointed a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to philosophy and public policy.

In 2014, O'Neill was elected to the German order Pour le mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste.

2015

In September 2015, during the XII.

quinquennial international Kant-conference in Vienna, she received the Kant-Preis of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for her scholarly work on the practical and political philosophy of Immanuel Kant.

(see 12th International Kant Congress 2015 » Social Program)

2016

In February 2016, she was awarded the Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her outstanding contribution to moral and ethical questions of trust, accountability in civic life, justice and virtue.

2017

In 2017, she was awarded the Norwegian Holberg Prize for outstanding contributions to research in the arts and humanities "for her influential role in ethical and political philosophy".

The same year she was awarded the Berggruen Prize.

O'Neill is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College.

In 2021, O'Neill received an honorary doctorate from the University of Antwerp.