Gillian Brock

Gillian Greenwall Brock FRSNZ is a New Zealand philosophy and ethics academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland and fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University.[1][2]

Gillian Greenwall Brock

FRSNZ
Alma materDuke University
Scientific career
Thesis

Academic career

After obtaining a BSc and BA(Hons) at Cape Town, Brock completed her PhD at Duke University in 1993. Her thesis was titled 'On the moral importance of needs' . She moved to the University of Auckland and rose to full professor.[1] In 2018, Brock was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.[3]

Brock's work relates to the ethical obligations we have to meet the needs of others and has written on issues such as the 'brain drain'[4][5] and global justice.[1]

Selected works
  • Brock, Gillian. Global justice: A cosmopolitan account. Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • Brock, Gillian, and Harry Brighouse, eds. The political philosophy of cosmopolitanism. Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-52184-660-8.
  • Brock, Gillian. Necessary Goods: our responsibilities to meet others needs. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998.
  • Benatar, Solomon, and Gillian Brock, eds. Global health and global health ethics. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  • Brock, Gillian, and Michael Blake. Debating brain drain: may governments restrict emigration?. Oxford University Press, 2014.

References
  1. "Professor Gillian Brock". Arts, The University of Auckland. 2 January 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  2. "Gillian Brock". Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  3. "Centenary cohort of Fellows announced". Royal Society of New Zealand. 1 November 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  4. Gillian Brock (23 September 2016). "Solving the problems of medical brain drain". University World News. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  5. Robin Anderson (20 December 2015). "Debating the brain drain: an excerpt on emigration | OUPblog". Blog.oup.com. Retrieved 1 February 2018.


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