Amar Jesani is a medical graduate, working as an independent consultant – researcher and teacher – in bioethics and public health. He is one of the founders of the Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES https://fmesinstitute.org/) and its journal Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME www.ijme.in), published since 1993. Since 2012, he is its editor.

He is a Visiting Professor at the Ethics Centre, Yenepoya University, Mangalore, India (since 2011), an Associate Faculty at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC) of the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, Pakistan (since 2010) and a faculty for the KEMRI-CBEC Bioethics training program in Nairobi, Kenya (since 2017).

He was a co-founder trustee (1991-2013) of the Anusandhan Trust and founding coordinator/director (1994-99) of its centre, CEHAT (www.cehat.org) in Mumbai. He also worked as Senior Researcher (1979-95) at the Foundation for Research in Community Health (1979-95) in Mumbai, and as Program Coordinator (2001-03) at the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Sciences Studies (AMCHSS) in the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

In the past he served as a member of several Institutional Ethics Committees of biomedical, social science and public health institutions in India and the international Research Ethics Board of the Medicine Sans Frontiers (2009-24). In 2022 he was conferred an “Award for Bioethics Service in the Face of Challenges” by the International Association of Bioethics (IAB). He has co-authored and co-edited nine books.