Alta Charo
ALTA CHARO (AB biology Harvard '79; JD law Columbia '82) is the Knowles Professor Emerita of Law & Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, where she taught courses on biotechnology law and public health law for over 30 years. She also taught at the Sorbonne as a Fulbright lecturer, and been a visiting professor or lecturer at law schools in multiple countries. She now works as an ethics and regulatory policy consultant to a variety of biotechnology companies working on gene therapies, pharmaceutical development, stem cell biology, de-extinction and other topics. In the past she worked as a legal or policy analyst at the US Agency for International Development, the congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the Food & Drug Administration. She also served as a member of President Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Committee and President Obama's transition team. She has been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the US National Academy of Medicine, where she co-chaired its seminal reports on embryonic stem cell research and human genome editing.
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