Alena Buyx is new Chair of the German Ethics Council

Alena Buyx is a for Ethics in Medicine and Health Technologies and Director of the Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine at TUM. Image: A. Heddergott TUM medical ethicist elected Chair of the German Ethics Council - Following the appointment of several new members to the German Ethics Council in April 2020, Alena Buyx was elected the new Chair of the body at its inaugural meeting on May 28, 2020. Alena Buyx is a professor for Ethics in Medicine and Health Technologies and Director of the Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). "I feel greatly honored and I very much look forward to representing the German Ethics Council as its Chair," says Alena Buyx on the occasion of her election. This is the first time that a member of a Technical University has held the Chair of the German Ethics Council, which has existed in its present form since 2008. Alena Buyx is the second woman and medical ethicist in this position, which she will hold until 2024. TUM President Thomas F. Hofmann congratulates Alena Buyx: "In a time when government, economy and society are facing enormous challenges, Alena Buyx is taking on an important, influential position; I wish her great success.