Ana E. Lita

Who is Ana E. Lita?

Ana E. Lita Ana Lita is Co-founder and Executive Director of the Global Bioethics Initiative, an international not-for-profit organization incorporated in the State of New York in 2011, and the former director of the Appignani Bioethics Center. She received a Ph.D. degree from Bowling Green State University specializing in Applied Ethics and Social Philosophy. She has an M.A. in Sociology from Central European University and a B.A. from the University of Bucharest. She held a tenure track position as an assistant professor of Philosophy at Lincoln University, Missouri. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Bioethics from September 2009 to June 2010.

She was the beneficiary of a Soros Foundation Fellowship while studying at the Central European University and a National Association Fellowship for International Scholars as a graduate student at Bowling Green State University. In 1995 she was a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Department of Law. She served as a junior researcher at the Institute for Educational Sciences in Bucharest, Romania from 1991-1995, where she was responsible for a joint research project on Adult Education with UNESCO and the Institute for Education in Hamburg, Germany.