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"Contributors" [2006] ELECD 476; in Tremmel, Chet Joerg (ed), "Handbook of Intergenerational Justice" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006)

Book Title: Handbook of Intergenerational Justice

Editor(s): Tremmel, Chet Joerg

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845429003

Section Title: Contributors

Extract:

Contributors


Prof. Dr Emmanuel Agius was born in 1954. Studied philosophy and the-
ology at the University of Malta and at the Catholic University of Leuven,
Belgium, where he obtained an M.A. and Ph.D. He pursued post-doctoral
research in the field of bioethics at the University of Tübingen, Germany,
as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, at Georgetown
University, Washington, DC, USA as a Fulbright scholar, and at the
University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. He is professor of moral theol-
ogy and philosophical ethics at the University of Malta. He is a member of
the European Group of Ethics and Malta's National Bioethics Committee.
He is also the co-ordinator of the Euro-Mediterranean Programme on
Intercultural Dialogue, Human Rights and Future Generations which is
supported by UNESCO. Prof. Agius is the author of three books and co-
editor of five publications on future generations. His articles on bioethical
issues and on future generations have appeared in a number of interna-
tional academic journals.

Prof. Dr Wilfred Beckerman was born in 1925. Emeritus fellow of Balliol
College, Oxford, UK and professor of economics at Oxford University and
University College London, UK. He was economic counsellor of the
OECD from 1952 till 1961, consultant to the World Bank, UN, ILO, various
governments and the OECD from 1963 till 1990, and the economic adviser
to the president of the Board of Trade from 1967 till 1969. Authored Small
is Stupid (Duckworth Publishing: 1995, in ...