Ana Lita is Director of the IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics at the United Nations in New York City. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Ethics and Social Philosophy from Bowling Green State University, U.S. and an M.A. in Sociology through Lancaster University, UK. The author of numerous conference presentations, scholarly and popular publications in the fields of education and ethics, Dr. Lita is recipient of a Soros Foundation Fellowship and a National Association Fellowship for International Scholars. She was a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy in 1995, and as a junior researcher at the Institute for Educational Sciences in Bucharest, Romania from 1991-1995, where she was responsible for a joint research project on Adult Education with UNESCO-Institute for Education in Hamburg, Germany. She held a tenure track position as an assistant professor of philosophy at Lincoln University, Missouri, (2001-2004).