Russell Blackford PhD LLB, an attorney, science fiction author and critic, philosopher, and public intellectual and holds the position of editor-in-chief of the IEET’s Journal of Evolution and Technology.

Marshall Brain is the author of The Day You Discard Your Body, Manna, and the founder of HowStuffWorks.com. Before founding HowStuffWorks,Marshall taught in the computer science department at NCSU and ran a software training and consulting company.

David Brin, a scientist and best-selling author whose future-oriented novels include Earth, The Postman, and Hugo Award winners Startide Rising and The Uplift War, is a 2010 Fellow of the IEET.

Riccardo Campa is Extraordinary Professor of Sociology and Director of the History of Ideas Research Centre at Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D., is the Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and head of the Division of Bioethics at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City.

Milan Ćirković is Senior Research Associate at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade and Assistant Professor of the Department of Physics at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia and Montenegro.

John Danaher is a lecturer in the National University of Ireland Galway Law School. John’s research focuses on the ethical, legal and social implications of new technologies. He maintains a blog called Philosophical Disquisitions, and also writes for the Institute for the IEET.

Dr. David Eagleman holds joint appointments in the Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. His research areas include time perception, vision, synesthesia, and the intersection of neuroscience with the legal system.

Daniel Faggella is an internationally recognized speaker on the use-cases and ROI of artificial intelligence in business. He is the Founder and Head of Research at Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research

Linda MacDonald Glenn is an attorney-at-law, bioethicist, educator and consultant. Her academic research encompasses the legal, ethical, and social impact of exponential technologies and “evolving notions of personhood”.

Dr. Kevin LaGrandeur is Professor at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT). He specializes in Sociocybernetics, Technology and Ethics, and Literature and Systems Theory. His publications have appeared in professional venues and the popular press, and include the books Artificial Slaves and Surviving the Machine Age, with James Hughes.

Ana Lita, Ph.D, is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the Global Bioethics Initiative (GBI), an international not-for-profit organization incorporated in the State of New York in July 2011, and the former director of the Appignani Bioethics Center.

Luca Lo Sapio is Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Turin. In his work, he explores the profound implications of emerging technologies on the evolution of humanity, with a particular focus on human enhancement technologies and innovations within the agri-food sector.

Glenn McGee is Professor of Public Management in the College of Business at the University of New Haven. His work focuses on the relationship between society, technology, and human flourishing.

Andy Miah, Ph.D., is Chair in Science Communication & Digital Media, in the School of Environment & Life Sciences, University of Salford, Manchester. He is also Global Director for the Centre for Policy and Emerging Technologies, Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

Ramez Naam is the author of More than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement, which offers a tour of emerging technologies and makes a case for embracing human enhancement.

David Pearce is a British utilitarian philosopher and transhumanist, who promotes the idea that there exists a strong ethical imperative for humans to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life.

Martine Rothblatt, an IEET Fellow, is responsible for launching several satellite communications companies including the first nationwide vehicle location system, the first private international spacecom project, the first global satellite radio network,

Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Team Human, based on his podcast, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus.

Susan Schneider is William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professor at Florida Atlantic University and is also the NASA-Baruch Blumberg Chair at the Library of Congress and NASA.

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner is Chair of the Department of History at John Cabot University in Rome, and author of the following monographs: Metaphysics without Truth, Menschenwürde nach Nietzsche, Transhumanismus, Schöner neuer Mensch, Übermensch, On Transhumanism, and We have always been cyborgs.

Ilia Stambler, is Chief Science Officer of “Vetek” Association — The Senior Citizens Movement (Israel).His research has focused on the historical and social implications of aging and life extension research.

Natasha Vita-More, PhD is an IEET Fellow, Distinguished Senior Fellow of Center for Future Mind, Founder of Transhumanist Studies Program, and Executive Director of Humanity+.

Wendell Wallach is a consultant, ethicist, and scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. He chairs the Center’s working research group on Technology and Ethics and is a member of other research groups on Animal Ethics, End of Life Issues, Neuroethics, and PTSD.

Roman Vladimirovich Yampolskiy is a Russian computer scientist at the University of Louisville, known for his work on behavioral biometrics, security of cyberworlds, and artificial intelligence safety.