Ingrid Robeyns

Ingrid Robeyns holds master degrees in economics and philosophy, and obtained her PhD 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 a two million euro ERC Consolidator Grant. In 2018, she was elected as a member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts. In September 2021, she was awarded an Emma Goldman Award for her work on inequality studies and feminism by the FLAX Foundation in Vienna.

Her book, Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth, will be published by Allen Lane in the UK and Astra Publishing House in the US in 2024. Translation rights are sold in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Russia, Italy, Korea and Japan.