Willem Landman
Professor Willem Landman is a co-founder of DignitySA, and was also the founding CEO of The Ethics Institute of SA (TEI, formerly EthicsSA). He holds degrees from the Universities of Stellenbosch, Oxford (where he studied on a South-Africa-at-Large Rhodes Scholarship), and South Africa (Unisa) in philosophy, political philosophy, theology and law. Willem was Chair of the Departments of Philosophy at the Walter Sisulu University (formerly Unitra) (1977-1982) and University of the Western Cape (1983-1994), professor of Medical Humanities in the Brody School of Medicine, University of North Carolina (1994- 2000), and professor extraordinaire in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch (2000-2024). He co-edited The Bioethics Reader: Editors’ Choice (2007) and co-founded and co-edited the international journal Developing World Bioethics. He was Ethics Advisor to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, based in Geneva, chair of the PwC Ethics Board for Africa and the Middle East, and board member of the Institute of Directors (IoD).