Francoise Baylis

Dr. Françoise Baylis is President of the Royal Society of Canada. She is a leading philosopher and bioethics expert, renowned for her pioneering research at the intersection of healthcare ethics, practice and policy. Her work challenges conventional bioethics, pushing for broader, deeper thinking on health, science, and public policy. She is the author of Altered Inheritance: CRIPSR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing. Until recently, she was a member of the Board of the International Science Council.

Françoise Baylis has a long-standing relationship with Falling Walls. She spoke on the main stage in 2016 with “Breaking the Wall between Gene Science and Ethics: How Philosophy Can Provide Frameworks for a Global Biotech Revolution,” and returned in 2018 as interlocutor for “Breaking the Wall to Building Brains” with Paola Arlotta. She also served as a member of the Falling Walls Lab jury at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 2017 and 2018.