Martin Wilkinson

Infobox academic name = Timothy Martin Wilkinson birth_date = birth_place = Aldershot, United Kingdom

Early life and education Wilkinson was born in Aldershot, Hampshire. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford, graduating first-class in 1989, and completed a D.Phil. at Nuffield College, Oxford in 1993 with a dissertation on occupational choice.

From 2006 to 2009 he chaired Toi te Taiao: The Bioethics Council, having earlier served as a founding member. He was deputy-chair (2010–2016) and then member of the National Ethics Advisory Committee (NEAC) at the Ministry of Health, contributing to work streams on advance-care planning and clinical-trials governance.

Research and publications Wilkinson's research asks when, if ever, the state may override individual autonomy for health gains. His books include:

'The Ethics of Public Health Paternalism (Oxford University Press, 2025). A university news feature summarised the book's claim that many "nanny-state" policies leave people worse off. Ethics and the Acquisition of Organs (Oxford University Press, 2011) Freedom, Efficiency and Equality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000)