Ethics Dumping

from Paris-Sud University; he is senior Research Director at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm) in Paris. After 20 years as an immunologist in different research units, he spent 3 years as Seconded National Expert at the Unit 'Governance and Ethics' in the Directorate General for Research of the European Commission (EC) in Brussels where he helped organizing the ethics review of research proposals, with a special focus on research conducted in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Back at Inserm, François Hirsch became deputy director of the Office for Clinical Research and secretary general of the Inserm Ethics committee. Recently, he moved to the Institute for Health Technologies where he is in charge of regulatory governance and ethics. He runs an international initiative (HTech4Dev) aimed at facilitating the transfer of health technologies to LMICs. He frequently acts as expert to evaluate the ethics of projects funded under FP7 and H2020, including those funded by the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP). In addition to his participation in several national ethics bodies, he participates in the H2020 project "Creating and enhancing trustworthy, responsible and equitable partnerships in international research (TRUST)", which aims at providing the EC with recommendations for more equitable research partnerships between the North and the South. This book is part of TRUST.



Solveig Fenet studied political science and international relations at the University of Montreal and obtained her Master's degree in European Studies at the University Paris-Sorbonne. Before joining the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm) as a researcher, Solveig was an analyst at the French Development Agency (AFD) assessing the management performance of water and electricity companies in sub-Saharan Africa and a junior consultant for European public funds andf