Professor Julian Savulescu

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Professor Julian Savulescu is a philosopher who researches the ethics of various new or emerging technologies, including new methods of reproduction and enhancement of physical and cognitive performance through drugs or genetic manipulation. He has held the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford since 2002. He has degrees in medicine, neuroscience and bioethics. Professor Savulescu directed the Oxford Martin Programme for Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, and co-directed the interdisciplinary Wellcome-funded Oxford Centre for Ethics and Humanities in collaboration with Public Health, Psychiatry and History.