Dr. Helen Wallace is the Director of GeneWatch UK, a not-for-profit organisation which aims to ensure genetic science and technology is used in the public interest.

She has published widely on the social, environmental and human rights issues associated with the use of genetic technologies worldwide, ranging from genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to human genetic databases. Since 2010, her research has included issues associated with open releases of genetically modified insects into the environment.

Before joining GeneWatch UK in 2001, she worked as an environmental scientist in academia and industry and as Senior Scientist at Greenpeace UK.
Dr. Wallace has a degree in physics from Bristol University and a PhD in applied mathematics from Exeter University.

Selected publications

GM mosquitoes in Burkina Faso: A briefing for the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. 9th November 2018. The African Centre for Biodiversity, Third World Network and GeneWatch UK.

GeneWatch UK briefing: Oxitec’s GM insects: Failed in the Field? 14th May 2018.

GeneWatch UK briefing: Failures of the transboundary notification process for living genetically modified insects. 29th September 2014.

Wallace H. M. (2013). Genetically Modified Mosquitoes: Ongoing Concerns. Published by Third World Network.

Wallace, H. M. (2010). Bioscience for Life. Who decides what research is done in health and agriculture?