Dr. Mohammed Ghaly is professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics at the research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE), College of Islamic Studies at HBKU. In 1999, he did Islamic Studies in English at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt and was awarded his bachelor’s degree with cum laude. In 2002, he completed his MA degree in Islamic Studies also with cum laude from Leiden University, the Netherlands and in 2008 he received his PhD from the same university. During the period 2007-2013, Ghaly was a faculty member at Leiden University and since 2011 he has been a faculty member at the Erasmus Mundus Program; the European Master of Bioethics jointly organized by a number of European universities. Ghaly serves on the editorial board of a number of academic journals and he is the research consultant of a number of research projects as well. He was invited to lecture on Islamic bioethics at many universities worldwide including Imperial College London, Oxford University, University of Oslo, University of Chicago and Georgetown University. During the academic year 2014-2015, he was Visiting Researcher of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, USA.

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