Honorary Members
CARRASCO DE PAULA Ignacio

Titular Bishop of Thapsus; President Emeritus of the Academy
Nationality: Spanish
Appointed: 16 May 2017
Ordinary Members
AKIBA Etsuko

Professor of Law in the Department of Economics at the University of Toyama, Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Appointed: 16 May 2017
ANDERSON Carl Albert

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
BIGGAR Nigel

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
BOCHATEY CHANETON Albert German

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
CHIODI Maurizio

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
CHOMALI GARIB Fernando

Arcbishop of Concepción
Nationality: Chilean
Appointed: 16 May 2017
COLOMBO Roberto

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
D’AGOSTINO Francesco

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
DALLAPICCOLA Bruno

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
DE IRALA ESTEVEZ Jokin

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
EIJK Willem Jacobus

Cardinal-Priest of San Callisto; Archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands
Nationality: Dutch
Appointed: 16 May 2017
FARAG Abdel Messih Shehata Mounir

Director of the Saint Joseph Pro-Life Pro-Family Institute, Cairo
Nationality: Egyptian
Appointed: 16 May 2017
FISHER Anthony Colin

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
FOLEY Kathleen M.

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
GIL LOPES Aníbal

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
GRZESKOWIAK Alicja

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
GUERRA LOPEZ Rodrigo

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
HAAS John M.

President of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, Philadelphia
Nationality: USA
Appointed: 16 May 2017
HADDAD Mohamed

Professor of Arab Civilization and Comparative Religion at the University of Carthage - Higher Institute of Languages, Tunis
Nationality: Tunisian
Appointed: 16 May 2017
KEOWN Ignatius John

Professor of Christian Ethics at Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Nationality: USA
Appointed: 16 May 2017
KORNARAKIS Kostantinos

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
LE BLANC Katarina

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
LEJEUNE Alain F. G.

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
LE MENE Jean-Marie

Founder and President of the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation, Paris
Nationality: French
Appointed: 16 May 2017
LOPEZ BARAHONA Mónica

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
LUTS Ivan

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
LUTZ Manfred

Chief Physician at the Alexian Hospital, Cologne-Porz, Germany
Nationality: German
Appointed: 16 May 2017
NLANDU MAYI Daniel

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
PELLETIER Anne-Marie

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
PESSINA Adriano

Professor of Moral Philosophy - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
Nationality: Italian
Appointed: 16 May 2017
RODRIGUEZ LUNO Angel

Professor of Fundamental Moral Theology at the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Roma
Nationality: Spanish
Appointed: 16 May 2017
SERANI MERLO Alejandro César

Professor and Researcher, Faculty of Philosophy, Universidad San Sebastian, Santiago de Chile
Nationality: Chilean
Appointed: 16 May 2017
SIMARD Noël

Bishop of Valleyfield; Francophone Spokesman for the Canadian Bishops Conference for Bioethical Questions, euthanasia in particular
Nationality: Canadian
Appointed: 16 May 2017
SIMPORE Jacques Koudoubi

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
STEINBERG Avraham

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
STURMA Jaroslav

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
SULLIVAN William P.

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
SULMASY Daniel

Professor of Bioethics at Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Nationality: USA
Appointed: 16 May 2017
SZLAJEN Fernando

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
THIEL Marie-Jo

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
THOMAS Tomi

past Director-General of The Catholic Health Association of India, Secunderabad
Nationality: Indian
Appointed: 16 May 2017
VESCOVI Angelo

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
VILLANI Alberto

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
YAMANAKA Shinya

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
ZAMORA MARIN René

Director and Professor at the Centro de Bioética Juan Pablo II, Havana
Nationality: Cuban
Appointed: 16 May 2017