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Professor Roger Crisp, The Uehiro Oxford Institute[ref]Roger Crisp is Director of the Uehiro Oxford Institute, and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He has long-standing interests in the nature of ethics, ethical theories, and real-life ethical problems. With Tony Hope and others, he helped to establish in 1995 one of the first UK Clinical Ethics Committees, in the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust. He is the author of Mill on Utilitarianism, Reasons and the Good, The Cosmos of Duty: Henry Sidgwick’s Methods of Ethics, and Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham. He edited the Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics, and translated Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics for Cambridge University Press. He is currently translating and commenting on three of the Platonic dialogues concerned with the death of Socrates, as well as thinking, when time allows, about Buddhism and personal identity.[/ref]

Professor Katrien Devolder, The Uehiro Oxford Institute[ref]Katrien Devolder is Professor of Applied Ethics and Director of Public Philosophy at the Uehiro Oxford Institute and GB Fellow at Reuben College, University of Oxford. She has published two monographs: one on compromise positions in the embryonic stem cell debate (OUP, 2015) and one on the ethics of human cloning (Leuven University Press, 2001). She has also published numerous papers on ethical issues pertaining to gene editing, gamete donation and genetic parenthood, life extension, compromise in bioethical debate, moral complicity, animal ethics, conscientious objection, and euthanasia in prisoners. Her most recent work focuses on the concept and ethics of laziness. She also produces (conducts, films and edits) interviews with academics to make complex ethical debates accessible to a wide audience which can be viewed on YouTube’s ‘The Practical Ethics Channel‘ or listened to on Apple Podcasts (‘Thinking Out Loud’).[/ref]

Dr Jonathan Pugh, The Uehiro Oxford Institute [ref]Jonathan Pugh is a Senior Research Fellow at the Uehiro Oxford Institute. He is also the Theme Lead for Values and Society at Reuben College, University of Oxford. His research interests lie primarily in issues concerning personal autonomy in practical ethics, particularly topics pertaining to informed consent. He was previously a member of the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator, and the Parfit-Radcliffe Richards Fellow at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Autonomy, Rationality and Contemporary Bioethics (OUP, 2020), and he has also published work in philosophical and medical journals on a number of topics in neuroethics, research ethics, public health ethics, the ethics of psychiatry, and clinical ethics. He is currently the Principal Investigator on the project ‘Predictive Technologies, Ethics, and the Future of Insurance’, and the academic lead on the ‘Decision Aid for the Restitution of Cultural Artefacts’ project.[/ref]