Professor Nikola Biller-Andorno
Biography
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Nikola Biller-Andorno, MHBA, trained as a physician and specialized in biomedical ethics. After her habilitation at the University of Göttingen, Germany, she joined the World Health Organization, and two years later left Geneva to accept a position as professor of medical ethics at the Charité, Berlin. In 2005, she relocated again to Switzerland as founding director of the Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Zurich, a WHO Collaborating Center. Between 2012 and 2014 she was visiting professor and Harkness Fellow at Harvard, exploring ethical issues at the interface of healthcare management and economics; from 2016 to 2020 she held a fellowship at the Collegium Helveticum focused on the digital transformation of medicine. A Past-President of the International Association of Bioethics, she continues to have a keen interest in the global dimension of the key bioethical challenges our societies are confronted with.
Affiliations
Chair of Biomedical Ethics and Director, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich (UZH) (since 2005), a WHO Collaborating Center for Bioethics (since 2009, President of WHO CC Network since 2022)
Vice Dean Innovation and Digitalization, Medical Faculty, UZH (since 2021)
Vice President, Clinical Ethics Committee, University Hospital Zurich (since 2009)
Senate and Board member, Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (since 2009/22)
Deputy Editor, Swiss Medical Weekly (since 2017)
Member, Swiss National Research Council (since 2020, Vice President Programmes Division since 2022)
Board Member, European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (since 2018)
Member, European Group on Ethics (since 2022)
Fellow, Hastings Center (since 2021)
Senior Fellow, Commonwealth Fund (since 2021)