Advisory Board Member – Ethics, Morality & Dharma

Advisory Board Member – Ethics, Morality & Dharma

Organisation: Rypple Stichting

Location: Flexible / Remote

Time Commitment: Advisory role (approx. 6–8 meetings per year + ad hoc consultation)

Compensation: Voluntary / honorary role (travel costs covered if needed)

About Rypple

Rypple is a mission-driven organisation working to shift societies from profit through illness to profit through health — what we call Health-ing. We support governments, institutions, and communities to build systems that make prevention, wellbeing, and long-term flourishing the norm.

Our work is not only technical and economic — it is deeply moral. We ask questions like:

• What do we owe future generations?
• What does a “good” health system look like?
• How should societies balance freedom, responsibility, care, and justice?

Alongside Western ethical traditions, we are also inspired by broader wisdom traditions that speak of dharma — understood here not as religion, but as the idea of right action, responsibility, and alignment between individual life, society, and the greater whole.

Role Overview

We are seeking an Advisory Board Member for Ethics, Morality & Dharma to support Rypple’s leadership in navigating the moral, cultural, and philosophical dimensions of systemic health transformation.

This role is reflective, guiding, and questioning:

• Helping us think more deeply about what is “good,” “just,” and “responsible”
• Challenging assumptions when systems logic risks losing human meaning
• Supporting Rypple to act with integrity in complex moral terrain

You will advise the CEO and core team on ethical dilemmas, long-term societal responsibility, and the moral narratives embedded in our work.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide ethical and philosophical guidance on Rypple’s strategy, partnerships, and public narrative
• Support reflection on moral questions such as:
• Responsibility and freedom in health
• Prevention and moral obligation
• Intergenerational justice
• Equity, dignity, and human worth
• Individual wellbeing and collective good
• Advise on ethical tensions in:
• Policy influence and power
• Data use, modeling, and prediction
• Incentives for prevention
• Cross-cultural health narratives
• Participate in 6–8 advisory meetings per year
• Be available for occasional consultation when complex moral questions arise
• Help Rypple articulate not only what it does, but why it is morally worth doing

Who We Are Looking For

We are especially interested in someone who:

• Has deep training in:
• Philosophy, ethics, moral philosophy, political or social philosophy, or related fields
• Ideally:
• A professor, senior researcher, or recognised scholar
• Has worked with:
• Applied ethics, social ethics, political philosophy, medical ethics, or moral reasoning
• Is open to engaging both:
• Western ethical traditions
• Broader wisdom traditions that speak of responsibility, care, and right action (dharma)
• Can bridge:
• Theory and lived systems
• Abstract thought and human experience
• Is thoughtful, reflective, and unafraid to challenge power and dominant narratives

What This Role Offers

• A chance to shape a global health transformation movement at the level of meaning, not just method
• Space to bring philosophy into living systems
• Dialogue with leaders working in policy, economics, and systems change
• A role where your thinking influences how societies imagine health, care, and responsibility
• An intellectually rich, values-driven advisory position

Our Belief

We believe that building healthy systems is not just a technical project — it is a moral one.

We are not only asking “What works?”

We are asking:

What kind of society do we want to become — and how do we act in alignment with that?