THE PRESIDENT OF GOOD AND EVIL

Peter Singer was born in Melbourne in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He has been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University since 1999, a position that since 2005 he has combined with an appointment as Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, attached to the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.

An internationally renowned philosopher and acclaimed author, in 2005 Peter Singer was named by Time magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people. His latest book, The Ethics of What We Eat, co-authored with Jim Mason, was released in 2006.