Professor of Law in the Department of Economics at the University of Toyama, Japan

Nationality: Japanese

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus;
Professor and Vice President of the United States Section of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, Washington, DC

Nationality: USA

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, and Director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life, at the University of Oxford

Nationality: British

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Titular Bishop of Monte di Mauretania, Auxiliary Bishop of La Plata;
Professor of Bioethics and Vice Chancellor of the Universidad Católica de La Plata, Argentina

Nationality: Argentinian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor of Moral Theology at the Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose, Bergamo, Italy, and the Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Settentrionale, Milan;
Spiritual Assistant at the Centro Volontari della Sofferenza in Bergamo, Italy

Nationality: Italian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Arcbishop of Concepción;
Professor of Theological Anthropology and Bioethics at the Centro de Bioética of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile

Nationality: Chilean

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor of Neurobiology and Human Genetics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan;
Director of the Centro per lo Studio delle Malattie Ereditarie Rare at the Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital, Milan

Nationality: Italian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor of the Philosophy of Law in the School of Law at the Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”;
Honorary President of the Italian National Committee for Bioethics;
President of the Central Ethics Committee of the Region of Lazio, Italy

Nationality: Italian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Scientific Director of the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital (Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico-IRCCS), Rome;
Member of the Italian National Council for Bioethics and of its Mixed Group;
Member of the Italian Superior Health Council

Nationality: Italian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, and Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Project La Educación de la Sexualidad y Afectividad at the University of Navarre, Spain

Nationality: Spanish

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Cardinal-Priest of San Callisto;
Archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands

Nationality: Dutch

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Director of the Saint Joseph Pro-Life Pro-Family Institute, Cairo

Nationality: Egyptian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Archbishop of Sydney;
Professor of Bioethics and Moral Theology at the Australia Session of the Pontifical Institute John Paul II for Studies on Marriage and Family, Melbourne

Nationality: Australian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Neurologist, Director of the Department of Neurology at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the New York Hospital

Nationality: USA

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor of Physiology at the Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho at the Universidade Federal do Rio De Janeiro

Nationality: Brasilian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Emeritus Professor of Criminal Law at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland;
Professor at the Kujawsko-Pomoroska Szkola Wyzsza, Poland

Nationality: Polish

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor of Philosophy and President of the Superior Council of the Centro de Investigation Social Avanzada, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico

Nationality: Mexican

Appointed: 16 May 2017

President of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, Philadelphia

Nationality: USA

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor of Arab Civilization and Comparative Religion at the University of Carthage - Higher Institute of Languages, Tunis

Nationality: Tunisian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor of Christian Ethics at Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Nationality: USA

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor of Christian Ethics (Orthodox Spirituality) in the Department of Theology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Nationality: Greek

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor at the Division of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm;
Professor at the Hematology Center of Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm

Nationality: Swedish

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor of Pharmaceutical Law and Deontology at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium;
Member of the French Académie Nationale de Pharmacie and Secretary of its Ethics Commission

Nationality: French

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Founder and President of the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation, Paris

Nationality: French

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Academic Director General of the Centro de Estudios Biosanitarios, Madrid;
President of the Spanish Delegation of the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation and Director of the Foundation’s Jérôme Lejeune Chair of Bioethics, Madrid

Nationality: Spanish

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Director of the Medical College at the Lviv National Medical University, Ukraine;
President of the Ukrainian Association of Catholic Physicians

Nationality: Ukrainian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Chief Physician at the Alexian Hospital, Cologne-Porz, Germany

Nationality: German

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Bishop of Matadi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Diocesan Life Education Service;
Member of the Board of Directors of the Catholic University of Congo, Kinshasa

Nationality: Congolese

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor of Sacred Scripture, Bible and Liturgy at the Ecole Cathédrale and the Studium de la Faculté Notre Dame of the Seminary of Paris;
Professor of Philosophical and Biblical Anthropology at the Studium Théologique Inter-monastères, France

Nationality: French

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor of Moral Philosophy and Director of the Centro di Ateneo di Bioetica at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan

Nationality: Italian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor of Fundamental Moral Theology at the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Roma

Nationality: Spanish

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor and Researcher at the Centro de Bioética and the School of Medicine at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile

Nationality: Chilean

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Bishop of Valleyfield;
Francophone Spokesman for the Canadian Bishops Conference for Bioethical Questions, euthanasia in particular

Nationality: Canadian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Rector of the University of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Director of the Pietro Annigoni Center for Biomolecular Research, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Nationality: Burkinabe

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Director of the Medical Ethics Unit of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem;
Director of the Editorial Committee of the Talmudic Encyclopedia, Israel

Nationality: Israeli

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Catholic Theology at the Charles University in Prague;
Director of the Sunbeam Child Development Center, Prague

Nationality: Czech

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical School of the University of Toronto;
President of the International Association of Catholic Bioethicists, Canada

Nationality: Canadian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor of Bioethics at Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Nationality: USA

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Director of the Department of Culture of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina;
Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires

Nationality: Argentinian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Professor of Catholic Theology and Director of the Centre Européen d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Ethique at the Université de Strasbourg

Nationality: French

Appointed: 16 May 2017

past Director-General of The Catholic Health Association of India, Secunderabad

Nationality: Indian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Scientific Director of the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Hospital, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, and of the Gregor Mendel Human Genetics Institute, Rome

Nationality: Italian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Director of the General Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases Service at the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, Rome;
President of the Italian Pediatrics Society

Nationality: Italian

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Director and Professor at the Center for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, and Professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University;
Nobel Prize for Medicine 2012

Nationality: Japanese

Appointed: 16 May 2017

Director and Professor at the Centro de Bioética Juan Pablo II, Havana

Nationality: Cuban

Appointed: 16 May 2017