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Jeff Sebo

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, New York University

Jeff Sebo is associate professor of environmental studies; affiliated professor of bioethics, medical ethics, philosophy, and law; director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection; director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy; and co-director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program at New York University. His research focuses on animal minds, ethics, and policy; AI minds, ethics, and policy; and global health and climate ethics and policy. He is the author of The Moral Circle (2025) and Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves (2022) and co-author of Chimpanzee Rights (2019) and Food, Animals, and the Environment (2019). He is also a board member at Minding Animals International; an advisory board member at the Insect Welfare Research Society; an advisor at Eleos AI; and a senior affiliate at the Institute for Law & AI. In 2024 Vox included him on its Future Perfect 50 list of ‘thinkers, innovators, and changemakers who are working to make the future a better place.’

Written by Jeff Sebo