Susan Sherwin holds a Dalhousie University Research Professorship and has served as Chair of the university’s Department of Philosophy. She has straddled the divide between moral philosophy and bioethics for some time. Internationally, she is considered one of the world’s foremost feminist ethicists and she serves on committees for numerous organizations such as the Royal College where she serves on the Ethics and Equity Committee; CIHR as a member of the Standing Committee on Ethics; UNESCO; CIAR; and Health Canada on the Advisory Group on Reproductive and Genetic Technologies. Dr. Sherwin has been recognized with the Killam Prize in the Humanities from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2006 as well as fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada.