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David Winickoff, JD, is Associate Professor in Bioethics and Society in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. He previously taught at the Kennedy School of Public Policy at Harvard University. His work analyzes the role of science and expertise in environmental law and politics, and explores biotechnology and medicine from an ethical, legal and social perspective, focusing on questions of biological resources, property rights, and the commons; the role of expert communities in governing institutions; the politics of risk assessment; food safety standards; climate change and geoengineering. He is currently Co-director of the Science, Technology and Society Center at UC Berkeley, and the founder and executive director of the UC Berkeley Science, Ethics and Law Working Group.