As of July 1, the Centre for Ethics has a new director: Professor Simone Chambers from the Department of Political Science.

Her bio: Simone Chambers is a Professor of Political Science specializing in Political Theory. She received her BA from McGill University and her MA and PhD from Columbia University. She has been teaching at the University of Toronto since 2002. Her primary areas of scholarship include democratic theory, ethics,secularism, rhetoric, civility and the public sphere. She is presently working on a project entitled An Ethics of Public Discourse.