Dr. Timothy J Furlan is currently the Burnett Family Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Director of the Center for Ethical Leadership at the University of St Thomas in Houston, TX. He previously studied the classical liberal arts at Thomas Aquinas College before going to pursue graduate studies at the University of Chicago (M.A.), the Universite de Paris IV (Sorbonne), the Universite de Fribourg (Switzerland), and Trinity College Dublin (Ph.D.). Before coming to UST, he was a philosophy professor at Xavier University and Boston College, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School, editor of the Harvard Journal of Bioethics, and received his Master’s degree in bioethics (summa cum laude) from Harvard Medical School. He is currently completing a Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and is the author of three forthcoming books with Cambridge University Press.