2011 – PROFESSOR PETER SINGER
The Australian Thinker of the Year 2011 Award was presented to Professor Peter Singer in recognition of his exemplary contribution to bioethics in Australia and globally. The 2011 Award was hosted by the Crown Conference Centre.
He is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University in the USA and he is also the founder of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University. Peter is an internationally recognised public academic and is considered to be Australia’s greatest living philosopher.
Peter Singer is the author of the best selling ‘The Life You Can Save’; an eminently well-reasoned book that grapples with the fact that 9.7 million children under five die each year from poverty. He also offers a way the reader can do something about it.
Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He has taught at the Oxford, La Trobe, and Monash. Since 1999 he has been Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Since 2005 he has also held the part-time position of Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.
Peter Singer first became well-known internationally after the publication of ‘Animal Liberation’ in 1975. Since then he has written many books in more than 20 languages.
Petrina Gillespie, Managing Director SOT, welcomes guests to the 2011 Australian Thinker of the Year Award
This unique award was created in 2005 by the School of Thinking (SOT) to recognise the contribution Australian thinkers make both nationally and globally. There is only one award each year. The 2011 award was presented to Professor Singer at a private reception of Australian leaders in science, art, business, education and media on Thursday, March 31 at ’28′ at the Melbourne Crown Metropol.
- Principal SOT presents the award to Professor Singer
The Thinkers
