Françoise Baylis

Françoise Baylis, President of the Royal Society of Canada and Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Dalhousie University, is an internationally renowned bioethics expert. Her innovative work, at the intersection of policy and practice, has stretched the very boundaries of the field. Her research aims to move the limits of mainstream bioethics by developing more effective ways to understand and tackle public policy challenges. Baylis believes bioethicists need to exercise their moral imagination and find creative ways to make the powerful care.

She is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Nova Scotia, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the International Science Council. In 2022, she was awarded the Killam Prize in Humanities and the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal. In 2023, she was awarded the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize in Humanities.

Baylis is currently a member of the Governing Board of the International Science Council. She is the author of "Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing."