Prof.dr. Ingrid Robeyns
Ingrid Robeyns (Leuven - Belgium, 1972) is professor in Practical Philosophy .
Ingrid Robeyns obtained a masters degree in Economics (Leuven University, 1997) and in Philosophy (British Open University, 2007). She obtained her PhD at Cambridge University (UK) in 2003 with the dissertation ‘Gender Inequality. A Capability Perspective’, in which she developed the capability approach as an egalitarian theory and provided a novel account of gender equality. Her current research focuses on the capability approach, theories of justice, family justice, the assessment of economic systems from a multi-value perspective.
Before coming to the Erasmus University Rotterdam in September 2008, Robeyns held research positions in political philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and the Radboud University Nijmegen. She thaught courses at Cambridge University and UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, and was a visiting scholars Columbia University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. She accepted her position with the inaugural lecture ‘Invisible Justices’ on November 5th, 2009.
Ingrid Robeyns fulfills several positions in academic and professional organizations. E.g. she is Board Member of the Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy and she is member of the editorial board for the Journal of Human Development and Economics and Philosophy. She is also a member of The Young Academy of the KNAW.
In 2006, the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO) awarded Robeyns a Vidi-grant to direct a project entitled Social Justice and the New Welfare State. The overall aim of the project is to investigate how the welfare state needs to be adapted to three socio-demographic changes (fertility decline, aging, and the changing nature of gender roles), in such a way as to be a just welfare state for children, parents and non-parents, the elderly and their careers, and women and men. Robeyns will be working on this project until 2011
