Axel Liégeois is full professor of care ethics and practical theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven (Catholic University Leuven), Belgium. He holds the Chair of the Brothers of Charity for Theology, Mental Health and Disability. He is also posted as ethical advisor to the Brothers of Charity in Gent, Belgium. There, he coordinates ethics committees, gives ethical advice and ethical education.
His research, teaching and services focus on ethics in spiritual care and in the care for people with mental health problems or intellectual disabilities. He draws on personalism, care ethics and moral deliberation. Current topics include decision-making capacity, informed consent, assertive care, confidentiality, sexuality, euthanasia and oyster care. His passion is to shape and empower people in ethics so that they can make their own ethical choices based on a method of moral deliberation.