Gillian Brock Explained

Gillian Greenwall Brock
Alma Mater:	Duke University
Thesis1 Title:	On the moral importance of needs
Thesis1 Url:	https://search.library.duke.edu/search?id=DUKE001105512
Thesis1 Year:	1993

Gillian Greenwall Brock is a New Zealand philosophy and ethics academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland and fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University.^{[1] [2]}

Academic career

After obtaining a BSc and BA(Hons) at Cape Town, Brock completed her PhD at Duke University in 1993. Her thesis was titled 'On the moral importance of needs' . She moved to the University of Auckland and rose to full professor.^[1] In 2018, Brock was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.^[3]

Brock's work relates to the ethical obligations we have to meet the needs of others and has written on issues such as the 'brain drain'^{[4] [5]} and global justice.^[1]

Selected works

• Brock, Gillian. Global justice: A cosmopolitan account. Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Brock, Gillian, and Harry Brighouse, eds. The political philosophy of cosmopolitanism. Cambridge University Press, 2005, .
• Brock, Gillian. Necessary Goods: our responsibilities to meet others needs. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998.
• Benatar, Solomon, and Gillian Brock, eds. Global health and global health ethics. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• Brock, Gillian, and Michael Blake. Debating brain drain: may governments restrict emigration?. Oxford University Press, 2014.

External links

• google scholar
• researchgate
• Auckland University homepage

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Gillian Brock . Arts, The University of Auckland . 2017-01-02 . 2018-02-01.
2. Web site: Gillian Brock . Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University . 2018-02-01.
3. Web site: Centenary cohort of Fellows announced . 1 November 2018 . . 21 November 2018.
4. Web site: Gillian Brock . Solving the problems of medical brain drain . . 2016-09-23 . 2018-02-01.
5. Web site: Robin Anderson . Debating the brain drain: an excerpt on emigration | OUPblog . Blog.oup.com . 2015-12-20 . 2018-02-01.