Margit Sutrop

Margit Sutrop (née Mikelsaar; born 13 October 1963) is an Estonian philosopher, ethicist, academic, and politician.

She is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Tartu, where she is also the founding Director of the Centre for Ethics. She has been elected twice to the Estonian Parliament and is a Member of Academia Europaea. Since 2004, she has served as an ethics expert to the European Commission. Her research interests include the value alignment of AI, trust in science, moral disagreements, value pluralism, values education, human nature, ethical frameworks for artificial intelligence, human genetic databases, e-health, and biometric technologies. She is a member of the XIV Riigikogu.

She was born in Tartu. In 1989, she graduated from the University of Tartu (journalism), and in 1991 (philosophy).

Awards 2010 Order of the White Star, IV class

Selected publications "Teadus ja teadmistepõhine ühiskond", 2005 (with Urmas Sutrop) "Eesti Vabariigi naisministrid. Koguteos naistest poliitika tipus", 2007 (with Kristi Lõuk and Toomas Kiho) "Eetikakoodeksite käsiraamat", 2007 (co-author) "Mõtestatud Eesti – ühiseid väärtusi hoides", 2008 (with Triin Pisuke) "Eetika teadustes ja ühiskonnas. Tartu Ülikooli eetikakeskus 10", 2011 (with Triin Käpp; also in English) "Väärtuspõhine kool. Eesti ja maailma kogemus", 2013 "Eetikakoodeksid. Väärtused, normid ja eetilised dilemmad", 2016 "Marika Mikelsaar. Multiresistentne Mamma Bakter", 2008 (co-author)