Ingrid Robeyns

Ingrid Robeyns works on issues in contemporary political philosophy and applied ethics and holds the Chair in Ethics of Institutions at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University. In recent years, she taught the ethics of institutions, the ethics of capitalism, the capability approach, climate ethics, and public philosophy. Her latest book is “Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth,“ and her other book is “Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-examined.” From 2017 to 2022, she was the head of the Fair Limits Project, investigating the plausibility of limitarianism in economic and ecological resources, which was funded by a European Research Council Consolidators Grant. Robeyns has achieved multiple awards, including the VICI Grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Emma Goldman Award from the FLAX Foundation for her work on inequality, and was elected as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She holds an M.Sc. in Economics and an M.A. in Philosophy, and received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.