Adela Cortina is Emeritus Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the University of Valencia, member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.

She is director of the Fundación ÉTNOR (“For the Ethics of Business and Organisations”), Doctor Honoris Causa from various national and foreign universities, International Essay Prize “Jovellanos” 2007, Karl-Otto Apel International Philosophy Prize 2013, National Essay Prize 2014, Palabra Prize, Human Rights Prize of the Spanish Bar Association 2018, and received the High Distinction of the Generalitat Valenciana 2017.

He works on questions of ethics (both in terms of its foundations and its application to education, politics, business, the media, the professions and artificial intelligence) and political philosophy (citizenship, democracy, human development and cosmopolitanism).

Her books include Ética mínima (Tecnos, 1986), Ética aplicada y democracia radical (Tecnos, 1993), Ciudadanos del mundo (Alianza, 1997), Alianza y Contrato (Trotta, 2001), Por una ética del consumo, (Taurus, 2002), Ética de la razón cordial (Nobel, 2007), Las fronteras de la persona (Taurus, 2009) Neuroética y neuropolítica (Tecnos, 2011), ¿Para qué sirve realmente la ética? (Paidós, 2013), Aporophobia, the rejection of the poor (Paidós, 2017) and Cosmopolitan ethics (Paidós, 2021).