Dan Lyons
Daniel Louis Lyons is the chief executive officer of the Centre for Animals and Social Justice, a British animal protection charity. He is an honorary research fellow at the University of Sheffield and the author of The Politics of Animal Experimentation (2013).
Dan Lyons | |
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| Born | Daniel Louis Lyons |
| Education | Social and political studies, University of Sheffield, 1990–1993 PhD, politics, University of Sheffield, 2006 |
| Occupation(s) | CEO, Centre for Animals and Social Justice |
| Awards | Political Studies Association's Walter Bagehot Prize for Government and Public Administration, 2007 |
| Website | Dan Lyons University of Sheffield. |
Lyons specializes in the study of animal research, the philosophy of animal rights, and the political representation of animals' interests. He is the former campaigns director of Uncaged Campaigns (1993–2012), a group that opposed animal experiments in the UK, in particular xenotransplantation. During his time with Uncaged, Lyons became known as the author of Diaries of Despair (2000), a report that reproduced and analysed leaked documents about pig-to-primate organ transplants.
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