Gillian Brock


Gillian Greenwall Brock is a New Zealand philosophy and ethics academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland and fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University.

Academic career

After obtaining a BSc and BA at the University of Cape Town, Brock completed her PhD at Duke University in 1993. Her thesis was titled 'On the moral importance of needs' . She moved to the University of Auckland and rose to full professor. In 2018, Brock was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Brock's work relates to the ethical obligations we have to meet the needs of others and has written on issues such as the 'brain drain' and global justice.

Selected works