Gillian Greenwall Brock is a New Zealand philosophy and ethics academic. She is currently a full professor at the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

and fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics,

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Academic career

After obtaining a BSc and BA(Hons) at

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, Brock completed her PhD at Duke University in 1993. Her thesis was titled '' 'On the moral importance of needs' ''. She moved to the

and rose to full professor. In 2018, Brock was elected a

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. Brock's work relates to the ethical obligations we have to meet the needs of others and has written on issues such as the ' brain drain' and

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Selected works

* Brock, Gillian. ''Global justice: A cosmopolitan account''.

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, 2009. * Brock, Gillian, and Harry Brighouse, eds. ''The political philosophy of cosmopolitanism''.

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, 2005, . * Brock, Gillian. ''Necessary Goods: our responsibilities to meet others needs''.

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, 1998. * Benatar, Solomon, and Gillian Brock, eds. ''Global health and global health ethics''.

, 2011. * Brock, Gillian, and Michael Blake. ''Debating brain drain: may governments restrict emigration?''.

, 2014.

References

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