Piers Millet
Co-Founder, Biosecure Ltd
Piers Millet spent over 10 years working for the UN and the Biological Weapons Convention before leaving to co-found Biosecure Ltd, a company dedicated to safeguarding the bio-economy. There he works with international organizations, governments, industry and civil society to help ensure robust frameworks to maximize the benefits from biotechnology whilst minimizing any risks. He is also a founder member of the Safety Committee at iGEM, the international genetically engineered machines competition.
There is increasingly rapid progress in understanding how biological systems work. This gives us new tools to meaningfully manipulate those systems towards a given end. We are developing an [...] More
