Bernard Siegel
Executive Director, Genetics Policy Institute (GPI)
Co-Chair, Governmental Affairs Committee of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)

Bernard Siegel received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Miami.

In 2002, he filed the landmark case seeking a guardian for the alleged clone, “Baby Eve.” The case was widely credited for exposing the alleged company making the cloning claim, as a sham.

In 2003, he traded his 30-year courtroom career to found GPI, a leading proponent of the global “Pro-Cures Movement.” Working with the world’s leading scientific authorities and advocates, he played a pivotal role in protecting stem cell research in the United Nations.

Bernie is a frequent lecturer on stem cells and public policy and has made presentations to the United Nations, the Salk Institute, James Baker Institute of Public Policy at Rice University, New York Biotechnology Association, Diabetes Research Institute Foundation, Seoul National University, World Parkinson Congress and the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research in Rome.

He organized major science conference and patients’ press conference for the United Nations, featuring a video message from Christopher Reeve. He has created, organized and chaired annual stem cell summits at Baylor College of Medicine, Stanford University and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. In 2008, he launched the World Stem Cell Summit to take place September 22-23 in Madison, Wisconsin.

Bernie has appeared as a policy expert on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CNN, CNN International, MSNBC, Fox and Friends and network news shows throughout the U.S. and the world. He was profiled on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. He has been quoted in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Wired, The Scientist, New Scientist, The London Times, Le Monde, Pravda, The Peoples Daily and many other publications.

Bernie serves on the board of directors of Americans for Cures Foundation and on the advisory boards of the New England Spinal Cord Injury Center at Boston Medical Center, Sabrina Cohen Foundation for Stem Cell Research, The Brooke Ellison Project and Genomics Education Institute.

He received the 2005 Advocacy Award from the Stem Cell Action Network and was voted one of the "dLife Top 10" individuals who made the greatest contribution to the lives of people with diabetes in 2006.