Vilhjálmur Árnason, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy and chair of the Centre for Ethics at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. He is currently working on a research project on the vision of the scientific citizen in a democratic society.

Stephanie Bauer, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Her main research interests include the ethics of human enhancement technologies, personal autonomy in medical decisionmaking, and justice and care during disaster preparation and response.

Jack Beetson is an Aboriginal teacher and philosopher who was awarded the title of “Unsung Hero of the 20th Century” by Kofi Annan. He holds an Adjunct Professorship at the University of New England in Australia.

Tom Buller, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His main research interests are in neuroethics and bioethics.

Silvia Camporesi is sponsored by the Wellcome Trust for a 3-year research fellowship in Philosophy of Medicine at the Centre for the Humanities and Health, King’s College, London. Her interests include the foundations of healthcare and its relations with justice, the concept of health and disease in sports, the ethical and regulatory issues of Phase 0 clinical trials, and the ethics of human–animal hybrid embryos.

John Coggon, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation, School of Law at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. At the time of writing he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, working in issues relating to public health law and ethics.

Ronald M. Green, Ph.D., is the Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values in the Religion Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and Faculty Director of Dartmouth’s Ethics Institute. His work focuses on reproductive, reprogenetic, and perinatal ethics. His most recent book is Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice (Yale University Press, 2007).

Darryl Gunson, Ph.D., is a member of the Division of Politics and Sociology in the School of Social Science at the University of the West of Scotland, Paisley Campus. His recent work has been on the ethics of genetic enhancement, the value of solidarity, and global bioethics. He is currently working on projects to do with the role of human nature as a normative principle and on theories of justice and biotechnology.

John Harris, F.Med.Sci., D.Phil., is the Lord David Alliance Professor of Bioethics and Director of The Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, School of Law, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. He is Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics. His latest book is Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People, published by Princeton University Press in 2007.

Peter Herissone-Kelly, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Philosophy in the International School for Communities, Rights and Inclusion at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, and Visiting Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Bolton, UK. He works primarily on reproductive ethics and on the theoretical foundations of bioethical inquiry.

Aidan Hollis, Ph.D., is Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary, Canada, and Vice-President of Incentives for Global Health, the nongovernmental organization focused on developing the Health Impact Fund proposal.

Søren Holm, Ph.D., is Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester and Professor of Medical Ethics (part-time), Centre for Medical Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo.

Tom Koch, Ph.D., is adjunct professor of medical geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He has a clinical practice in bioethics and gerontology, specializing in chronic progressive diseases. His most recent book, Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.

Klaus M. Leisinger, Ph.D., is President and Managing Director of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development (www.novartisfoundation.org) and Professor of Sociology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. In 2005 and 2006 he served as Kofi Annan’s Special Advisor for the UN Global Compact.

Paolo Maugeri, M.Sc., is a Ph.D. student of the doctorate program “Life Sciences: Foundations and Ethics,” a collaboration between the European School of Molecular Medicine and the University of Milan. His research interests range from applied ethics, in particular the ethical and policy issues of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programs and the ethics of sports, to the epistemology of model organisms in molecular oncology.

Tikki Pang, Ph.D., is Director of Research Policy & Cooperation at the World Health Organization and was formerly Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia.

Thomas Pogge, Ph.D., is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale, Professorial Fellow at the Australian National University Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Research Director at the Oslo University Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, and Adjunct Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire. His current work is focused on a team effort toward developing a complement to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would improve access to advanced medicines for the poor worldwide (www.healthimpactfund.org).

Nicky Priaulx, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in Law and Director of the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society at Cardiff University, UK. Her teaching and research interests include torts and medical law and her book The Harm Paradox: Tort Law and the Unwanted Child in an Era of Choice was published by Routledge-Cavendish in 2007. Currently Dr. Priaulx is pursuing a number of projects that explore how insights from the behavioral sciences might inform regulation in the fields of reproduction and personal injury law.

Karin Schmitt is in charge of Foundation Affairs and Special Projects at the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development.

Doris Schroeder, Ph.D., is director of the Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Adjunct Professor of Ethics at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Peter Singer, B.Phil., is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and Laureate Professor of the University of Melbourne. His books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, One World, and most recently, The Life You Can Save.

Jan Helge Solbakk, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Medical Ethics at the Section for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo, Norway, and is an adjunct professor of medical ethics at the Centre for International Health, University of Bergen. He served as former Chief of Bioethics at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, is currently a member of the Biomedical Ethics Funding Committee of the Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom, and is involved in several international research projects dealing with ethics teaching and with the ethical implications of biobanking, genetics, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, and stem cell research.