Ingrid Robeyns

Ingrid Robeyns holds master degrees in economics and philosophy, and obtained her PhD for a thesis on gender inequality and the capability approach at Cambridge University, under the supervision of Amartya Sen. She currently holds the chair in ethics of institutions at Utrecht University. She previously served as the director of the Ethics Institute at Utrecht University, and as the first director of the Dutch Research School for Philosophy. Her academic work has been supported by several grants from the Dutch Research Council, as well as by an ERC Consolidator Grant (2M euro). In 2018, she was elected as a member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts. In September 2021, she will be awarded an Emma Goldman Award for her work on inequality studies and feminism by the FLAX foundation in Vienna. She lives in the Netherlands.