Heather Widdows is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. She is author four books The Connected Self: The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual (2013), Global Ethics: An Introduction (2011), and The Moral Vision of Iris Murdoch (2005). Her most recent book Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal (2018) is internationally acclaimed. Vogue described it as “groundbreaking”, Maclean’s as “a buzzed about book” and The Atlantic as “a scholarly work that is urgently relevant to the current cultural moment” and one of the best books of 2018. She was Deputy Chair of the Philosophy sub-panel for REF 2021 and was a member of the 2014 sub-panel and served two terms of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.