Anita L. Allen is an expert on privacy law, the philosophy of privacy, bioethics, and contemporary values. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan. She was the first African American woman to serve as a President of the American Philosophical Association and the first to hold both a PhD in philosophy and a law degree. She is a member of the Pennsylvania and New York bars, and was an Associate Attorney with Cravath, Swaine and Moore. At Penn she is the Vice Provost for Faculty and the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy. She chairs the Provost’s Arts Advisory Committee. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and the National Academy of Medicine in 2016. She is a member of the American Law Institute. In 2010 she was appointed by President Obama to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. Her books include Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide (Oxford, 2011); The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st Century Moral Landscape (Miramax/Hyperion, 2004); Why Privacy Isn’t Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003); and Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society (Rowman and Littlefield, 1988), the first monograph on privacy written by an American philosopher. Her textbooks include: Privacy Law and Society (Thomson/West, 2016), a comprehensive textbook on the US law of privacy and data protection, with chapters on common law, constitutional law, federal statutory law, surveillance law and international standards. Allen, who has published more than a hundred scholarly articles, book chapters and essays, has also contributed to popular magazines, newspapers and blogs, and has frequently appeared on nationally broadcast television and radio programs. Allen is active as a member of editorial, advisory, and non-profit boards, and in professional organizations relating to her expertise in law, philosophy and health care. She is on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and has received its Lifetime Achievement Award.