Warren Bourgeois is a professor of philosophy who received his doctorate at the University of California, Irvine. He has taught at the University of Salzburg, Austria, the University of California, San Diego, the University of British Columbia, and now teaches at Kwantlen University College where he chairs the Research Ethics Board.

Since 1977 he has been a director of the BC Civil Liberties Association. He has helped to found and served on two hospital ethics committees locally. Among his published writings is the book Persons: What Philosophers Say About You released in its second edition by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 2003. His current project is an online textbook in Bioethics.