Cristina Richie is a Lecturer in Ethics of Technology in the Philosophy Department at the University of Edinburgh. Her previous roles include Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics of Technology at Delft University of Technology and Assistant Professor in Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Brody School of Medicine. She spent a semester as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has also served as a visiting professor at Tyndale Theological Seminary in the Netherlands and Zaporozhye Bible College and Seminary in Ukraine.

Cristina’s research is driven by a global vision of clean, just, and ethical health care and technology through the development of strategies and policies. She is the author of Principles of Green Bioethics: Sustainability in Health Care (Michigan State University Press, 2019); Environmental Ethics and Medical Reproduction (Oxford University Press, 2024); and How Health Care Impacts the Planet and What We Can Do (Routledge, 2027), and editor of Environmental Bioethics: Theory and Practice for Environmentally Sustainable Health Care (Routledge, 2024) and The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Bioethics (Oxford University Press, 2026). She has also over seventy articles that have been published in various journals, including Nature Climate Change, New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Lancet Planet Health, and American Journal of Bioethics. 

Cristina is the joint editor of Global Bioethics, the Head of the Netherlands Unit (Rotterdam) of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, and a Board member of the International Association of Bioethics and the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, and the Institute for Medical Ethics.