Leandro Loriga, Ph.D.
What I Do
My work focuses on autonomy, decision-making, questions of embodiment and morality in contexts where authority, technology, and institutional frameworks shape how people act, choose, and are acted upon. I examine how decisions are formed under constraint—medical, organisational, cultural, and technological—and how responsibility is assigned, displaced, or obscured. I provide anthropological and bioethical consultancy for public and private institutions, as well as for individual cases. My work includes advisory input, policy-facing analysis, workshops, and public speaking for professionals and policymakers. I collaborate with national and international bodies, and my research is disseminated through peer-reviewed journals, academic books, and public writing.
Background and Training
I am an author and researcher.
I hold a B.A. in Medical Anthropology from the University of Bologna (Italy), an M.Sc. in Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology from Brunel University London (United Kingdom), and a Ph.D. in Bioethics from Masaryk University (Czech Republic).
I work across academic, corporate, and industry environments. In parallel with my academic work, I have held senior leadership roles in IT governance and operations, with responsibility across technical, operational, and strategic domains within large organisations. This includes direct collaboration with senior executives, delivery teams, and external partners.
I am a co-founder and Executive Chair of Corpus Sui (Prague), a non-profit research and advocacy network working on ethically sensitive and often unspoken medical situations. Its work includes research and policy engagement on cross-border abortion pathways, end-of-life decision-making under legal prohibition, and long-term psychiatric detention resulting from procedural and judicial delays.
I am also the founder of the BodyIntegrityDysphoria.com project, the first English-language research and public-engagement initiative dedicated to Body Integrity Dysphoria. The project aims to bridge the gap and foster structured communication between the medical community, the Body Integrity Dysphoria community, and the wider public, with a focus on accurate scientific dissemination and ethical analysis.
I am an APPA-certified philosophical practitioner, with a focus on identity, decision-making in situations of moral dilemma, disruption, and ethical uncertainty.
Bioethical Consulting
Philosophical Practice
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