Cristina Richie
Lecturer of Ethics of Technology, Centre for Technomoral Futures
Dr Cristina Richie is a Lecturer of Ethics of Technology and Cohort Lead for the MSc in Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics at the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute. She was previously a Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics of Technology at Delft University of Technology and had a decade-long career in the United States which included a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor in Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Brody School of Medicine and a semester as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Her research is driven by a global vision of clean, just, and ethical health care and technology through the development of strategies and policies. In addition to her monographs, Principles of Green Bioethics: Sustainability in Health Care (Michigan State University Press, 2019); Environmental Ethics and Medical Reproduction (Oxford University Press, 2024), and edited volumes, Environmental Bioethics: Theory and Practice for Environmentally Sustainable Health Care (Routledge, 2024); The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Bioethics (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), Dr Richie is the author of over sixty articles in journals including Nature Climate Change, The Lancet, and the American Journal of Bioethics.
She is the joint-Editor of Global Bioethics, the Head of the Netherlands Unit (Rotterdam) of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, and a Board Member of the International Association of Bioethics and the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care.
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