willem landman

Willem was founding CEO of EthicsSA (2000-2010) and is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Ethics Institute of South Africa (EthicsSA) and professor extraordinaire of philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch (since 2000). He has degrees from the Universities of Stellenbosch, Oxford (South Africa-at-Large Rhodes Scholar) and South Africa (Unisa), in philosophy, political philosophy, theology and law.

He was Professor and chair of the department of philosophy, University of the Western Cape (1986-1994) and professor of medical humanities in the Brody School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, USA (1994-2000).

Among his achievements he co-edited the book The Bioethics Reader: Editors’ Choice, Blackwell, Oxford (2007); co-founded and co-edited the international journal Developing World Bioethics, Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2000-08); he writes a monthly Ethics Opinion for ‘Sake24’; served on several journal editorial boards and company ethics boards (Discovery Health; Momentum Life; Primecure), and chairs the Ethics Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Southern Africa; Chair, Ethics Committee (a subcommittee of the Sustainability Committee) of the King Committee on Governance for South Africa (King III) that wrote chapter 1 of King III (2007-09); Council member, Institute of Directors in Southern Africa (IoD) (2003-09); and Ethics Advisor, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland (since 2005).

Willem Landman is the co-founder of DignitySA.