Roberto Andorno is Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Zurich (Switzerland). Originally from Argentina, he holds doctoral degrees in law from the Universities of Buenos Aires (1991) and Paris XII (1994), both on topics related to the ethical and legal aspects of assisted reproductive technologies. Between 2001 and 2005 he conducted various research projects relating to global bioethics, human dignity, and human rights at the Universities of Göttingen and Tübingen, in Germany. Between 2005 and 2011 he was research fellow and lecturer at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics of the University of Zurich.

From 1998 to 2005 he served as a member of the International Bioethics Committee

International Bioethics Committee

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 (IBC) of UNESCO

UNESCO

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, and participated in this capacity in the drafting of the International Declaration on Human Genetic Data (2003) and of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005). Since 2010 he is President-elect of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare

European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare

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(ESPMH).