Dr. Megan J. Palmer is Executive Director of Bio Policy & Leadership Initiatives and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. She leads research, education, and policy engagement programs to explore how biotechnology is reshaping our societies and to guide innovation to serve public interests. She co-chairs the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Synthetic Biology, is a member of the Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC) council, and is a Director of Revive & Restore, a nonprofit focused on biotechnology in conservation. She spent a decade leading social responsibility programs for the international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition and directed policy efforts of the National Science Foundation Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (Synberc). Previously, Dr. Palmer was a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford, a project scientist at the University of California Berkeley, and a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford. She received her Ph.D. in Biological Engineering from M.I.T.
