Wayne Hall is chief investigator and group leader of the Addiction Neuroethics Unit. He is an NHMRC Australia Fellow and Professorial Research Fellow at UQ Centre for Clinical Research, The University of Queensland. He was formerly Professor of Public Health Policy in the School of Population Health, UQ (2005-2010), Director of the Office of Public Policy and Ethics at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, UQ (2001-2005) and Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at UNSW (1994-2001). He has advised the World Health Organization on: The Health Effects of Cannabis use; the effectiveness of drug substitution treatment; the scientific quality of the Swiss heroin trials; the contribution of illicit drug use to the global burden of disease; and the ethical implications of genetic and neuroscience research on addiction. In 2001 he was identified by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the world’s most highly cited social scientists in the past 20 years. He was awarded an NHMRC Australia Fellowship in 2009 to research the public health, social policy and ethical implications of genetic and neuroscience research on drug use and addiction. He was recently given a Visiting Professorship at the Institute of Psychiatry in London (Kings College, University of London) to do work in this field.