Dr. Howard B. Radest is Dean Emeritus of the Humanist Institute and a member of the National Council of Ethical Culture Leaders. He is a consulting member (emeritus) of the South Carolina Medical Association Ethics Committee, consultant to the Center for Preparedness, School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, and a former member of the Board of the Association for Moral Education. He is a member of the Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophic Thought, serves on the Advisory Committee of the Appignani Center for Bioethics, is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Inquiry, and a Board Chair of The Ethical Community Charter School in Jersey City.
From 1992 to 2008, Dr. Radest was Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at The University of South Carolina-Beaufort, served as Ethics Consultant to Hilton Head Hospital and was Chair of its Biomedical Ethics Committee. His extensive experience includes service as Director of The Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City (1979 - 1991), as Executive Director of The American Ethical Union (1963 - 1969) and as Leader of the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, NY (1956 - 1963).
Dr. Radest was the founder and first chair of the University Seminar On Moral Education, Columbia University. He is a member of the Board of the North American Committee for Humanism(NACH). He served from 1978 to 1988 as Co-Chair of The International Humanist and Ethical Union. He is on the editorial boards of The Humanist and Religious Humanism.
In addition to his numerous articles, his many book publications include Toward Common Ground (1968), Can we Teach Ethics? (1989), From Clinic to Classroom - Medical Ethics and Moral Education (2000), Ethics and Public Health in a Time of Terror (2006), and Bioethics: Catastrophes in a Time of Terror (2009)
Dr. Radest received his B.A. at Columbia College, his M.A. in Philosophy and Psychology at The New School For Social Research and his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Columbia University.