Donald Chalmers (Co-Chair) is professor of law, dean, and head of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. Professor Chalmers’s research interests include health law and ethics, trusts, and law reform. He has completed a three-year AusAID project on Access to Laws in Papua New Guinea. Professor Chalmers is a board member of the Australian Institute of Family Studies. He was chair of the Australian Health Ethics Committee from 1993 to 2000, and has been a member of this committee since 1991. The Committee prepared guidelines on genetic registers, gene therapy, assisted reproductive technology, and genetic testing and the new National Statement of Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Humans. Concurrently, Professor Chalmers was a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council. From 1992 to 1998, he was a member of the Legal Aid Commission, and, from 1991 to 1997, was law reform commissioner in Tasmania. Professor Chalmers chaired the Commonwealth Ministerial Review of the National Institutional Ethics Committee System in 1995. He has represented the Australian Health Ethics Committee at the world summits of many national bioethics commissions, including those held in San Francisco, Tokyo, and London. Professor Chalmers holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Papua New Guinea