CURRICULUM

Lourdes Velázquez, born in Mexico City, obtained a B.A. in Philosophy from the

UNAM (Universaidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and a Master in Philosophy

from the University La Salle of Mexico City. After postgraduate study supported

by a scholarship of the Mexican Council for Science and Research, she obtained a

Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Genoa (Italy) and spent research and teaching

activities at that University for several years. Her research fields have been initially

epistemology, and the study of philosophical and scientific doctrines in pre-Hispanic

Mexican cultures. She became then deeply interested in bioethics, in which she obtained

a Master degree (at the Ateneo Regina Apostolorum in Rome) and a Doctorate (at the

Universidad Anáhuac of México). She had several teaching appojntments at universities

in Mexico and Italy and from 2009 on she has had a professor tenure in the Faculty of

Bioethics of the Universidad Anáhuac of Mexico as well as an appointment as titular

professor of Latin-American Philosophy at the Pontifical University of Mexico.

Her publications include three books and 20 articles in the domains of epistemology,

history and philosophy of pre-Hispanic Mexican cultures, bioethics. She belongs to the

Board of Consulting Editors of the professional journals Anthropos & Iatria (Italy) and

Clepsydra (Spain)

She has participated as an invited speaker in several international and national

congresses related with her research domains and has presented contributed papers

at the World Congresses of Philosophy of Brighton (1988), Moscow (1993), Boston

(1998), Istanbul (2003), Seoul (2008). She has given talks at universities and learned

institutions in Mexico, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Peru.

She has been elected as a member of the Steering <Committee of the International

Federation of the Philosophical Societies (FISP) in 2008 and is member of the

Committee for Bioethics of the same FISP. She is member of the Mexican National

Academy of Bioethics and member of the Board of the Italian Institute of Bioethics.