Victor Saenz, PhD, is Executive Director of the Houston Institute. His academic work has appeared in Apeiron, Ancient Philosophy Today, and The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. He is currently working on a series of academic articles on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. He also teaches regularly at Rice’s Glasscock School for Continuing Studies. He also serves as a bioethics scholar at the Paul Ramsey Institute. From spring 2019 to spring 2024 he served as Lecturer in the Rice Philosophy Department, where regularly taught courses in ancient Greek philosophy (mostly Plato and Aristotle) and the philosophy of religion.

He holds a B.A. in philosophy and classics from the University of Notre Dame, and M.A. in philosophy from Texas A&M, and a PhD in philosophy from Rice.

For more information on Victor and his research, visit https://vsaenz4.wixsite.com/victor-saenz.