Asian Bioethics Review - Meet the Journal Editors: Graeme Laurie and Karel Caals

Graeme Laurie (LLB PhD) is Professorial Fellow in the School of Law, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He is the Founding Director of the JK Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and the Law (2012-2017) and he held the Chair of Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh from 2005-2019. Graeme has been Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on numerous funded research projects throughout his career, including grants from Wellcome, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Medical Research Council, Scottish Government, and the European Union. In addition to his role as Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Bioethics Review, he is currently co-editor of the Cambridge University Press monograph series on Bioethics & Law (with Professor Richard Ashcroft). Graeme was Chair of the Organising Committee for the 13^th World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics, held in Edinburgh in 2016. He has held various visiting positions in the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the National University of Singapore. Graeme lives and works in Sri Lanka. 

Karel Caals has been with the NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics since 2012 in various research positions. He obtained a PhD in Health Geography, after qualitative field research on the training of healthcare professionals in Timor-Leste to establish the concept of the More-than-National Health System. As part of his interest in health systems, Karel researches the digitalisation of health, working on topics such as the ethics of artificial intelligence in healthcare and digital health surveillance. Additional interests include various topics in the field of research ethics, as well as stakeholder engagement via social media.