University of Hertfordshire

Luciano Floridi (MA Laurea Rome "La Sapienza", MPhil, PhD Warw, MA Oxon, Dr. h. c. Suceava) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire – where he holds the Research Chair in Philosophy of Information and the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics – and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford, where he directs the philosophy of information research group, IEG. In 2009, he was elected Gauss Professor by the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, awarded the Barwise Prize by the APA, and elected Fellow of the AISB. In 2010, he was elected Fellow of the Center for Information Policy Research, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and appointed Editor in Chief of Philosophy & Technology (Springer). In 2011, he received a laurea honoris causa from the University of Suceava, Romania and was appointed Chairman of the “Concepts Reengineering” research group, organised by the EU Directorate General Information Society and Media, as part of the ‘Digital Futures’ project. He is also a member of the Ethics Strategic Panel of the British Computer Society. He was the principal investigator of the AHRC project “The Construction of Personal Identities Online” and ‘scientist in charge’ of the Marie Curie project “The Ethics of Information Warfare: Risks, Rights and Responsibilities”. He is the principal investigator of the AHRC project “Understanding Information Quality Standards and their Challenges”, in collaboration with Google, UK. His most recent books are The Philosophy of Information (Oxford University Press, 2011, vol. I of a quadrilogy on The Foundations of the Philosophy of Information), Information: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010), and The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2010). His forthcoming books are: Information Ethics (vol. II of the quadrilogy) and The Fourth Revolution - The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Our Lives (both for Oxford University Press). In 2012, he received both the Covey Award for "outstanding research in Computing and Philosophy" and the Weizenbaum Award, from the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology, for “significant contribution to the field of information and computer ethics, through his research, service, and vision”.