Elisabeth Gerle

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Elisabeth Gerle (born 8 December 1951) is Professor of ethics with a special focus on human rights at Uppsala University and Ethicist at the Research Department, Church of Sweden. She has spent several years at Princeton University as visiting scholar, first at The Center of International Relations and then at Princeton Theological Seminary. Since she returned to Sweden in 1995 she has lived in Lund and worked as senior ethicist and associate professor and lecturer at Lund and Malmö University in Ethics and Human Rights. During 2001–2005 she was dean of the Pastoral Institute in Lund. Her Lund office is situated at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute.

In 2003, Gerle was elected Member och the Science Society in Lund.

Since 2014 she is visiting scholar at Stellenbosch University of Advanced Studies, STIAS, in South Africa, collaborating with Sarojini Nadar from UKZN.