Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Mary’s University (Halifax, Canada)

Email: chris.macdonald@smu.ca

Physical Address:
Department of Philosophy
Saint Mary’s University
923 Robie St.,
Halifax, Canada
B3H 3C3

Chris MacDonald is a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics, and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Mary’s University (Halifax, Canada). He specializes in business & professional ethics and health care ethics (currently focusing on ethical issues in the biotechnology and nanotechnology industries) and foundational issues in moral theory. He is the co-author of the new Canadian Edition of The Power of Critical Thinking. His articles have appeared in several journals including: Business Ethics Quarterly, The Journal of Business Ethics, and BioDrugs. In 2004, he was awarded a three-year Ethics Operating Grant by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, to support his project entitled “Biotech Ethics: Corporate Decisions as Key to Better Health and Better Health Policy.” In 2006, he was awarded a three-year Standard Research Grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (of Canada) to support his project entitled “External Perspectives on Corporate Moral Motivation.” Also in 2006, he was awarded a one-year grant, by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, under the title “Conflicting Interests, Benefit-Sharing & University-Industry Relations: A Socio-Ethical Analysis of Commercial Genomics Research.” In 2008, he was named as one of the “100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics” by Ethisphere Magazine. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Political Studies from Trent University and a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia. He is currently writing a book on ethical issues in the biotech industry.

Read Chris MacDonald’s blog, BusinessEthicsBlog.com.