Julian Savulescu

Australian philosopher and bioethicist. He is Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Co-Director of the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities. He is a Visiting Professorial Fellow in Biomedical Ethics at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia, and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law at Melbourne University. He is a former editor and current board member of the Journal of Medical Ethics (2001-2004 and 2011-2018), which is ranked as the No.1 journal in bioethics worldwide by Google Scholar Metrics as of 2013. In addition to his background in applied ethics and philosophy, he also has a background in medicine and neuroscience completed his MBBS (Hons) and BMedSc at Monash University.