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Professor Alastair Vincent Campbell MA, BD, ThD (born 1938) is a British theologian and bioethicist.
Campbell was born in Motherwell, Scotland. He obtained an MA, philosophy (1st class hons), bachelor of divinity BD from the University of Edinburgh. He was awarded Harkness Fellowship of the Commonwealth Fund of New York and completed a doctorate in theology at the Graduate Theological Union, San Francisco.
He worked as an Associate Chaplain to the University of Edinburgh from 1964 to 1969 and was a part-time lecturer in ethics at the Royal College of Nursing, Scotland from 1966 to 1972.
He has been joint secretary with Kenneth Boyd of the Edinburgh Medical Group; was Associate Dean in the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh from 1987 to 1990); as Professor of Biomedical Ethics, at Otago Medical School in New Zealand from 1990 to 1996; and as Professor of Ethics in Medicine at the University of Bristol from 1996–2006, becoming emeritus on retirement.
He then became Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor of Medical Ethics and Director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, from August 2006.
He has served as foundation editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics from 1975 to 1980; as president of the International Association of Bioethics; as a member of the Medical Ethics Committee of the British Medical Association; as Vice-Chairman of the UK Retained Organs Commission from 2001 to 2004; and as chair of the Ethics and Governance Council of UK Biobank from 2005 to 2006.