Dr Chiara Lepora

Chiara Lepora is the Director of the Manson Unit in MSF UK, and the Deputy Medical Director in MSF OCA (Operational Centre Amsterdam). 
Trained as a medical practitioner at the Universities of Pavia and Lisbon, Dr. Lepora holds post-graduate master and diploma from LSHTM (UK), a post-doctoral fellowship in Bioethics from NIH (USA), and an MBA from the INSEAD Business School (Singapore, Abu Dhabi. Fontainebleau).

Since 2002, Dr. Lepora conducted and coordinated several missions with Médecins Sans Frontières (Angola, DRC, Sudan, Liberia, Somalia, Tchad, Cameroun, Philippines, and South Sudan), and with the International Committee of the Red Cross (Israel and Palestine, Morocco, Italy, Belgium, Kyrgyzstan, and Algeria.)  
They taught Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies of the University of Denver for a year before returning to MSF, opening and managing the MSF Dubai decentralized desk for Yemen, Iraq and Jordan between 2011 and 2015.  

Chiara Lepora conducted research on ethics in crisis contexts, with a particular focus on complicity. 
Drawing on both research and experience, Dr. Lepora co-authored with Professor Robert E. Goodin the book On Complicity and Compromise (Oxford University Press, 2013) and with Prof.  Collin O’Neil and Sean Aas the book 50 Puzzles, Problem Cases, and Thought Experiments in Bioethics (Routledge, forthcoming).