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BARONESS SUSAN GREENFIELD

Baroness Susan Greenfield: Background 

Susan Greenfield is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Lincoln College, and an Honorary Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford. In 1998 she was appointed Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. 

In 1994 she was the first woman to give the Royal Institution Christmas lectures and has made a wide range of broadcasts on TV and radio. She gave the Dimbleby Lecture in 1999 and has written and presented a series of four programmes for BBC Radio 4 on drugs, followed by a major six part series on the brain and mind,'Brain Story', broadcast on BBC2 in July 2000, Greenfield has also developed an interest in science policy. In 2000 she participated in a consultation with the Government on science funding, and was subsequently requested by the Prime Minister to submit a memorandum 'Genetics, Science and Risks'. In the Millennium New Year's Honours List she was awarded a CBE, and was granted a non-political Life Peerage in 2001.

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