Date of Birth: 28-8-1964
Nationality: Dutch
Current Position: Vice-President
Professor in Ethics of Care and Spiritual Counseling, University of Humanistic Studies
Carlo Leget (1964) studied theology at the Catholic Theological University at Utrecht (1989 cum laude) and published his PhD-thesis on life and death in the work of Thomas Aquinas in 1997. Working as a research fellow and assistant professor of moral theology he became involved in research into palliative care. From 2002-2008 he has worked as assistant professor Medical Ethics at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. From 2009 he has been working as associate professor Ethics of Care, University of Tilburg, and from 2012 he is professor in Ethics of Care and Spiritual Counseling at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, the Netherlands. At the same university he hold an endowed chair in ethical and spiritual issues in palliative care, established by the Association of High Care Hospices in the Netherlands.
His academic works focuses on ethics and spirituality in palliative care, and he is involved in many discussions in the Netherlands about end-of-life issues. He wrote, edited or co-edited 20 books and published more than 50 refereed papers and more than 40 contributions to books. He is in the editorial board of a number of international and Dutch journals.
He chairs the national working group on ‘Ethics and spiritual care’ in his country and is first author of the first national consensus based guideline on spiritual care in palliative care (2010). He also co-chairs the EAPC-Taskforce on spiritual care, is a board member of Palliactief, the Dutch Association for Professional Palliative Care. He takes also part in the Global Network on Spirituality and Health.