Ana Lita, Ph.D., Founder-Director of the Appignani Bioethics Center, has accepted an appointment as Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies for 2010.

Dr. Lita serves as a key representative of the AHA (American Humanist Association) to the United Nations, attending regular briefings and interfacing with other NGOs, country delegates, and diplomatic missions. She sits on the Ethics Committee of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, the UN NGO Health Committee, the UN NGO HIV/AIDS Committee, and the Ethics Committee of the Values Caucus. She speaks fluent English, Romanian, French, and Italian.

The author of numerous conference presentations, scholarly and popular publications, Dr. Lita is an active voice in public and academic discourse. Her teaching and writings have focused on ethics, especially in health care, medicine, and business. She is recipient of a Soros Foundation Fellowship and a National Association Fellowship for International Scholars and was a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, in 1995. She also served as a junior researcher at the Institute for Educational Sciences in Bucharest, Romania, from 1991-1995, where she was responsible for a joint research project on Adult Education with UNESCO and the Institute for Education in Hamburg, Germany. Most recently, she held a tenure track position (2001-2004) as an assistant professor of philosophy at Lincoln University, Missouri.

Dr. Lita earned her B.A. in history of western philosophy from the University of Bucharest, Romania, and her M.A. in sociology focused on political culture from the Central European University in Prague. She received her Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University in applied ethics and social philosophy.