Ritva Halila, M.D., Ph.D. has been a member of the Committee on Bioethics since 1999 (at that time Steering Committee on Bioethics). She has been a member of the Bureau of the DH-BIO since the beginning of 2016. In her previous work as the general secretary of the National Advisory Board on Social Welfare and Health Care Ethics she has been involved in medical ethics issues with special emphasis on end-of-life situations, medical research ethics and patients´ rights, especially children´s rights. During the last four years the National Advisory Board on Health Care Ethics has published papers and opinions on wide variety of issues in health care, social care, and health care reform in Finland. English translations of publications and opinions can be found at http://www.etene.fi/en. From the beginning of 2018 she works in the group of Children and Adolescents in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.

Lee Hibbard is an administrator in the Bioethics Unit of the Council of Europe. His current responsibilities include the development of a guide to public debate and strategic action and governance in the biomedical field. Until late 2017, Lee was the Internet governance coordinator of the Council of Europe, responsible for strategy and liaison with governments, the private sector, and intergovernmental organisations in various international forums, which included the setting up of a platform for dialogue on human rights and the rule of law between Internet companies and governments within the Council of Europe.