Ingrid Robeyns

Ingrid Robeyns
close-up of Ingrid Robeyns from profile, wearing a microphone headset, looking left and slightly up with set face
Robeyns in 2014
Born
Ingrid A. M. Robeyns

(1972-09-10) 10 September 1972 (age 54)
Leuven, Belgium
Academic background
EducationKU Leuven (Lic., MSc)
Open University (MA)
University of Cambridge (PhD)
ThesisGender Inequality: A Capability Perspective (2002)
Amartya Sen
InfluencesMartha Nussbaum
Academic work
School or tradition
Capability approach
InstitutionsUtrecht University
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Main interests
Notable ideas
Websiteingridrobeyns.info
Notes

Ingrid A. M. Robeyns (born 1972) is a Belgian/Dutch philosopher who holds the Chair in Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University's Faculty of Humanities and the associated Ethics Institute. She is also a fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association and was elected the association's eighth president in April 2017. She is an advocate of economic limitarianism.

Biography

Robeyns was born in Leuven, Belgium, in 1972. She earned a licentiate qualification in economics from the KU Leuven in 1994. She went on to study social and political science at the University of Göttingen in Germany. She returned to KU Leuven for her MSc in economics, which she completed in 1997. She obtained her doctorate in economics from the University of Cambridge in 2003, with a dissertation was on gender inequality and the capability approach. Robeyns also has an MA in philosophy from the Open University (2007).

Robeyns claimed dual Dutch/Belgian citizenship in 2013.

Academic career

In 2006, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research awarded Robeyns a five-year grant for research on theories of justice. The work considers what the question of justice means within the welfare state for children, parents, and non-parents. In 2018, Robeyns was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Publications

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Prof.dr. I.A.M. Robeyns (1972 – )". Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  2. ↑ "Ingrid Robeyns". Retrieved 22 August 2026.
  3. ↑ "HDCA Fellows". Human Development & Capability Association. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  4. ↑ Robeyns, Ingrid (29 January 2024). "Opinion: No more billionaires? We can be more ambitious than that. No one needs more than $20 million". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 22 August 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 Morris, Christopher (2009), "Contributors", in Morris, Christopher (ed.), Amartya Sen, Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. xii–xiii, ISBN 9780521618069
  6. ↑ Robeyns, Ingrid. "CV". Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  7. ↑ Robeyns, Ingrid (13 October 2013). "One woman, two votes". Crooked Timber. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  8. ↑ "Social justice and the new welfare state". Eramus University Rotterdam. Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  9. ↑ "Ingrid Robeyns". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 12 April 2020.