Colin Blakemore is an Adviser to the Progress Educational Trust (PET), and is Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford's Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, at the University of Warwick's Clinical Sciences Research Institute, and at the Graduate Medical School jointly affiliated to Duke University and the National University of Singapore. He is also President of the Motor Neurone Disease Association, Chair of the General Advisory Committee on Science at the UK Government's Food Standard Agency, Chair of the Neuroscience Research Partnership at the Government of Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Chair of the Health Protection Agency's Electromagnetic Fields Discussion Group, Vice President of the Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Association, a Commissioner at the UK Drug Policy Commission, a Fellow of the Royal Society and Chair of its Brain Waves project, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Previously, he was Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council, President and Chair of the British Science Association, President of the British Neuroscience Association, President of the Physiological Society, and President of the Biosciences Federation (now subsumed into the Society of Biology). In 2010, he was listed at number 64 in The Times newspaper's 'Eureka 100 Science List' of the 100 most important people in UK science and engineering. He is author of a chapter in The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA), and is coeditor of The Physiology of Cognitive Processes (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA).