Professor Alastair Vincent Campbell MA, BD, Th.D., FRSE (born 16 April 1938) is a British theologian and bioethicist.

He was the founding editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics and received the Henry K. Beecher award from the Hastings Centre in 1999.

[citation needed] He obtained an MA, philosophy (1st class hons), bachelor of divinity BD from the University of Edinburgh.

[2] Alastair V. Campbell 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 served as the 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; as chair of the Ethics and Governance Council of UK Biobank from 2005 to 2006; and as President of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society (2003).