Cristina Richie, PhD is Lecturer in Ethics of Technology in the Department of Philosophy at The University of Edinburgh the Joint Editor-in-Chief of the journal Global Bioethics, and the Chair of the Environmental Bioethics Affinity Group of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Richie was previously a Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics of Technology department at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (2020), an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Brody School of Medicine (2017-202) and has also taught at Tyndale Theological Seminary, (Netherlands), Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (Boston), Zaporozhye Bible College and Seminary (Ukraine), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary-Boston and Tufts University.
Richie is the author of Principles of Green Bioethics: Sustainability in Health Care (Michigan State University Press, forthcoming) and over 35 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Bioethics, the Journal of Medical Ethics, the Hastings Center Report, Medicina e Morale, and Developing World Bioethics. In 2018, Richie was an Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Law, KU Leuven (Belgium) and in 2011 she was a Visiting Scholar in Bioethics at the Hastings Center (New York).
Her internationally recognized expertise in environmental bioethics, reproductive ethics, and health care policy has solicited interviews from the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, BMJ Talk Medicine, and Vox and her scholarship on environmental sustainability and reproductive technologies was cited in both the 2017 Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Ethics and the 2017 Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History.
Richie’s nomination to the academy will coincide with her leadership position as co-chair of the Bioethics Consultation of the Evangelical Theological Society (2019–2021), where she has also served as a member of the Steering Committee since 2015. During this time her scholarship will continue its focus on environmental sustainability in health care, medical reproduction, and global justice.
Dr. Richie has a PhD Theology (theological ethics) from Boston College, a ThM (moral theology) from Boston College School, an MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, a Diploma from the Vineyard Institute of Ministry, and a BA in English Literature from Colorado State University. She was in parish ministry for eight years and is the Head of the North Carolina Unit of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.