President Bush Appoints SAIS Professor Fukuyama to Bioethics Council

Washington, D.C.-01/18/2002 - President Bush this week appointed Francis Fukuyama, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), to be one of 18 members to serve on the recently created President's Council on Bioethics.

Fukuyama, the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Political Economy, and the other members of the council will advise the president on ethical and social issues related to biomedical and other areas of scientific research. According to the White House statement issued on 01/16, the council will review such activities as "embryo and stem cell research, assisted reproduction, cloning, uses of knowledge and techniques derived from human genetics or the neurosciences, and end-of-life issues."

Having joined the SAIS faculty from George Mason University in the fall of 2001, Fukuyama has written widely on the human and political implications of modern technological society. His books include The End of History and the Last Man (1993), The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order (2000), and a new book on biotechnology, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution, that will be published in April.

The council is holding its first meeting on 01/17 and 18 in Washington, D.C. Paul R. McHugh, M.D., University Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, was also appointed to the council.

SAIS is one of the country's leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international relations. Located along Embassy Row in Washington's Dupont Circle area, the school enrolls more than 450 full-time graduate students and mid-career professionals and has trained more than 10,000 alumni in all aspects of international affairs.

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