The Humanity+ Board of Advisors is a group of between 3 and 15 individuals with significant prominence and prior contributions in areas directly relevant to Humanity+’s mission. The members of the Board of Advisors provide advice to the Board on matters relevant to their expertise, as well as assisting with networking or other Board business as appropriate. Our current Advisors are:
Sonia Arrison is an author and policy analyst who has studied the impact of new technologies on society for more than a decade. A Senior Fellow at the California-based Pacific Research Institute (PRI) and a columnist for TechNewsWorld, she is author of two previous books as well as numerous PRI studies. A frequent media contributor and guest, Sonia has also given testimony and served as an expert witness for various government committees such as the Congressional Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce and the California Commission on Internet Political Practices. She is an instructor for California’s Command College and serves on the Board of Trustees for Singularity University. Her forthcoming book, 100 Plus, considers the social, economic and cultural impacts of a significant increase in human lifespan and makes the case for strongly supporting the development of longevity science and technology.
Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based in Cambridge, UK, and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Foundation, a California-based charity dedicated to combating the aging process. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, the world’s highest-impact peer-reviewed journal focused on intervention in aging. He received his BA and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1985 and 2000 respectively. His original field was computer science, and he did research in the private sector for six years in the area of software verification before switching to biogerontology in the mid-1990s. His research interests encompass the characterisation of all the accumulating and eventually pathogenic molecular and cellular side-effects of metabolism (“damage”) that constitute mammalian aging and the design of interventions to repair and/or obviate that damage. He has developed a possibly comprehensive plan for such repair, termed Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS), which breaks aging down into seven major classes of damage and identifies detailed approaches to addressing each one. A key aspect of SENS is that it can potentially extend healthy lifespan without limit, even though these repair processes will probably never be perfect, as the repair only needs to approach perfection rapidly enough to keep the overall level of damage below pathogenic levels. Dr. de Grey has termed this required rate of improvement of repair therapies “longevity escape velocity”. Dr. de Grey is a Fellow of both the Gerontological Society of America and the American Aging Association, and sits on the editorial and scientific advisory boards of numerous journals and organisations.
Martine Rothblatt created Sirius XM Satellite Radio and served as its Chairman & CEO until forming United Therapeutics Corporation, a biotechnology company of which she is currently Chairman & CEO. Prior to Sirius she worked with Gerard K. O’Neill as President & CEO of the Geostar satellite navigation company he founded to help fund space colonization. Dr. Rothblatt has published books on freedom of gender expression (The Apartheid of Sex), freedom of reproduction (Unzipped Genes: Taking Charge of Baby-Making in the 21st Century) and freedom of chimerism (Your Life or Mine: The Conflict Between Public and Private Interests in Xenotransplantation). Her blog Mindfiles, Mindware and Mindclones is a leading source of information in the fields of mind uploading and cyberconsciousness.