Bert Gordijn is Chair of Ethics and Director of the Institute of Ethics at Dublin City University. Bert is Editor-in-Chief of a book series, "The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology" (Springer), as well as two peer reviewed journals, "Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy" (Springer) and "Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology" (Berkeley Electronic Press).
Bert is also Secretary of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, which was founded in 1987 with a view to the growing need for critical reflection on the role of medicine and health care in our present society. He has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Patent Organisation and the UNESCO Expert Committee on Ethics & Nanotechnology.