UNESCO Chairs

UNESCO Chairs assist the Organisation in the implementation of its program.

A Chair may be developed within a university department by reinforcing an existing teaching/research programme in the field of bioethics or ethics of science and technology and giving it an international dimension.

Existing chairs in the field of bioethics:

• UNESCO Chair of Bioethics(569) established in 2001 at Haifa University, Israel
  Director: Professor Amnon Carmi
• UNESCO Chair of Bioethics (3), established in 1994 at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Director: Professor Dr. Salvador Dario Bergel
• UNESCO Chair in Bioethics (126), established in 1998 at Egerton University, Kenya
  Director: Professor Dr. Jude Mathooko
• UNESCO Chair in Bioethics: “Biojuridica y Bioetica” (487), established in 1999 at the University Feminina del Sagrado Corazon, Peru
  Director: Professor Maria Dolores Vila-Coro
• UNESCO Chair in Bioethics: “Bioetica en el contexto de America Latina”, established in 2005 at the University of Brasilia, Brazil.
  Director: Professor Dr. Volnei Garrafa
• UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, established in 2005 at the Ethics and Public Policy Centre, Washington DC, USA
  Director: Dr. Edward Whelan III
• UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Clinical Medicine, established in 2007 at the Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Mexico D.F., Mexico
  Director: Professor dr. Fernando Cano Valle
• UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, established in 2007 at the University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
  Director: Professor dr Maria Casado

Chairs in the field of ethics of science and technology:

• UNESCO Chair in Environmental Ethics, established in 2006 at the East Siberia State University of Technology, Ulan-Ude, Russian Federation Report [PDF]
  Director: Professor Vyacheslav Mantanov

See also
Guidelines and Procedures for the UNESCO UNITWIN Programme