Franck L.B. Meijboom studied theology and ethics at the Universities of Utrecht (NL) and Aberdeen (UK). As Professor of Sustainable Animal Stewardship he is affiliated to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht University and the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University (Faculty of Humanities). Additionally he is Head of the Centre for Sustainable Animal Stewardship (CenSAS) and Head of Department of the Department of Population Health Sciences (faculty of Veterinary Medicine).

His fields of interest are in ethics of animal use and veterinary ethics, in agricultural and food ethics, and the role of public trust and debate in these domains. As a researcher and project leader, he has been involved in national and European funded research concerning topics such as  

• Ethics of animal welfare
• Ethical aspects of the use of technologies for sustainable animal breeding
• Ethics of Precision livestock farming 
• Ethical dimension related to end of animal life questions
• Ethics of fisheries and aquaculture
• Ethics of innovative and translational animal research
• Prevention and control of animal diseases
• Questions of moral status (of non-human animals)
• Veterinary Ethics.

In his work the link between ethical theory and moral practice plays an important role. For instance, a number of projects were initiated by or in close cooperation with the Dutch government. Additionally, he performs and supervise projects with a strong interdisciplinary character. 

He and his team are responsible for and coordinator of the bachelor and master teaching in ethics at the faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Utrecht University. Furthermore, he is co-coordinator of the Master course “Sustainable World” that is part of the Master in Applied Ethics (Ethics Institute), involved in ethics teaching for life science students and developed an online course in Ethics of Animal Welfare (http://www.elevatehealth.eu/).

Further Activities see seperate section