Donald Evans

Professor Donald Evans taught at the University of Wales for 29 years. He developed the first European Masters programme in Medical Ethics and served as a member of the Governing Body of the Institute of Medical Ethics. He has been a member and chair of various national and regional ethics committees in the UK and New Zealand and has published numerous books and learned papers. He was elected a member of the Academy of Humanitarian Research, Moscow in 1996. He served as a member of the New Zealand Independent Biotechnology Advisory Council, the Health Research Council Ethics Committee, and the National Ethics Advisory Committee of New Zealand. He was appointed Director of the Bioethics Centre in the University of Otago in 1997. Professor Evans was appointed a member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee in 2003, and elected Vice-President in 2007.