Key competences
- Research: philosophical aspects of human rights, business and human rights
- Consultant in the fields of Business ethics; Ethics and Human Rights
- Referee for many Journals
- Reviewer for many university presses
Professional record
- College Lecturer, St. Anne’s College, Oxford
- College Lecturer, Balliol College, Oxford
- College Lecturer, Queen’s College, Oxford
- Lecturer in Philosophy, The Open University
- Reader in Philosophy, University of Essex,
- Professor of Philosophy, University of Essex
- Director, MA and Doctoral Program in Ethics, Politics, and Public Policy
- Member, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex
- Faculty Fellow in Ethics, Harvard University
- Co-Director, MA in Human Rights, University of Essex
- Deputy Director, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex
- Co-Director, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex
- John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics
Education
- BA (First Class Hons. in Philosophy) McGill University
- B Phil Oxford University
- D Phil Oxford University
Publications (selection)
- with John Hendry, Business Ethics. Butterworth-Heinemann. 1994.Third Printing 1998. 200 pp. Chinese edition, 1997. Yugoslav edition 1998.
- Moral Theory and Anomaly. Blackwell, 1999. 218pp.
- 'Kant's Good Will and our Good Nature' Kant-Studien 78 (1987) 87-101. Reprinted in Paul Guyer, ed. Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: Critical Essays (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998) pp. 81-102.
- 'Morality, Consumerism and the Internal Market in Health Care' Journal of Medical Ethics 23 (1997) 71-76.
- ‘Insurance Markets and Discrimination’ in J. Burley and J. Harris eds. Blackwell Companion to Genethics (2001).
- Morality and Emergency’ Proceedings of Aristotelian Society 103 (2003) pp. 21-38.
- ‘Project Finance and the Special Responsibilities of Multinationals’ in M. Salmon et al. eds Shared Responsibilities: Human Rights and Development in the 21st Century (Interscientia, 2007), pp. 265-282.
- ‘The UN Norms for Transnational Corporations’ in A. Fagan and J. Dine eds. Capitalism and Human Rights (London: Edward Elgar, 2006), pp. 284-299.
Membership in professional bodies/networks
- Essex University Animal Research Ethics Committee
- Essex University Ethics Committee
- Business Ethics: a European Review (Associate Editor)
- British Journal of the History of Philosophy Journal of Applied Philosophy
- Co-editor (with Norman Bowie, U of Minnesota) Ashgate book series in Ethics, Politics and Public Policy
- Editorial Board, China Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing) series in economic, business and professional ethics
- Research Committee, UK Forum on Genetics and Insurance
- International Business Section, Amnesty UK
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