Board of Directors

George P. Dvorsky is a Canadian futurist, science writer, and bioethicist. Dvorsky currently serves as Chair of the Board for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) and is the founder and chair of the IEET’s Rights of Non-Human Persons Program.

Richard “RJ” Eskow, serves on the IEET Board of Directors and as a Senior Fellow with the Campaign for America’s Future. RJ is CEO of Health Knowledge Systems (HKS) in Los Angeles, which provides services to the healthcare and workers’ compensation industries.

David Wood, D.Sc., a member of the IEET Board of Directors, has spent 25 years envisioning, architecting, designing, implementing, and avidly using smart mobile devices. At different times, his executive responsibilities included software development, technical consulting, developer evangelism, partnering and ecosystem management, and research and innovation.

Mark Walker Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Philosophy at New Mexico State University, where he occupies the Richard L. Hedden Endowed Chair. He serves on the Board of Directors of the IEET, on the editorial board of the Journal of Evolution and Technology.

PJ Manney is a fiction and non-fiction author, podcaster, futurist, consultant and speaker on emerging technologies, future humans, empathy and ethics creation, and storytelling. Currently on the Board of Directors for the IEET, Manney was a former Chairperson of the Board for Humanity+, teleplay writer, and film executive.