Position: Chairman EFB Task Group on Public Perceptions of Biotechnology
Organisation: Sible, University of Sheffield
Location: Sheffield, United Kingdom
Email: J.Kinderlerer@sheffield.ac.uk

Professor Julian Kinderlerer is a biochemist who has moved from research interests in theoretical aspects of enzymology and enzyme kinetics to looking at law, ethics, risk assessment and risk analysis in biotechnology. He is now in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sheffield .

During 2000 he was seconded to work in Nairobi for the United Nations Environment Programme, and prepared a project that has been funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to assist in the provision of Biosafety Frameworks in 119 Developing Countries. He was also one of the prime authors of the initial strategy for Biosafety agreed by the GEF.

He had been a member of the Advisory Committee for Genetic Modification (ACGM) since 1984 – 2003, was a member of the independent technical sub-committee of ACGM till 2003, and was a member of the Advisory Committee for Releases into the Environment (ACRE) since releases were first considered in the UK until 1999. He was also a member of a working group of the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens that produced a report on Microbiological Risk Assessment, primarily related to public health issues.

Julian has contributed to the drafting of legislation or guidelines for the safe use of the products of biotechnology in many countries throughout the world, including Malaysia, Thailand, Baltic States, the Russian Federation, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Namibia, South Africa, Mexico and Brazil.