Board of Directors

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Ashok Acharya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Fellow and Joint Director of the Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Toronto. His areas of interest lie in contemporary political theory, including issues of social justice, rights and diversity, comparative inquiries in political philosophy, and cosmopolitan ethics and politics.
Luis Cabrera is Reader in Political Theory at the University of Birmingham (UK). His research focuses on ways to promote human rights protections through institutional transformations above the state. His most recent book, The Practice of Global Citizenship (Cambridge University Press 2010), seeks to identify the universal human duties that correspond to individual economic and political rights, including possible duties to promote forms of regional integration. His theoretical claims were informed by extensive field work at sites of intense unauthorized immigration in the United States, Mexico, and Western Europe.
Paula Casal is an ICREA Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona since 2008. She was previously a Reader in Moral and Political Philosophy at Reading University, and a Lecturer at Keele University (1996-2004).  She has also been a Fellow in Ethics at Harvard University (1999-2000), a Keele Junior Research Fellow, also at Harvard (2000-1), a Hoover Fellow at Université Catholique de Louvain (2001-02), and a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Oxford (2002-3).  She specializes in distributive justice but is also interested in gender, climate change, multiculturalism, and the overlap between ethics and primatology. She is an Associate Editor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics and Vice-President of The Great Ape Project-Spain.
Keith Horton is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Originally from the UK, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Reading in 2002.  He has written numerous articles on the moral implications of world poverty, and co-edited three books: Ethical Questions and International NGOs (with Chris Roche, Springer 2010), Global Ethics: Seminal Essays (with Thomas Pogge, Paragon 2008), and Globalisation and Equality (with Haig Patapan, Routledge, 2004).
Meena Krishnamurthy is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Manitoba. She recently completed a Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Novel Tech Ethics, Dalhousie University where she worked on the project Pandemic Planning and Foundational Questions of Justice, the Common Good and the Public Interest. Her main areas of research are in political philosophy, normative ethics, and applied ethics. Her current work focuses on global justice and public health ethics and their intersection.
Matt Lindauer is a Ph.D. student in the Philosophy Department at Yale University. He earned his B.A. with Honors in Philosophy at NYU, writing a senior thesis under Kit Fine.  A Junior Global Justice Fellow and Fellow at the Center for Law and Philosophy at Yale, Matt is also the founder of Students for Global Health at Yale and co-founder of the Philosophy, Psychology and Psychiatry Research Group (with Dr. Andres Barkil-Oteo). His main areas of research interest are political philosophy, global justice, moral psychology and cognitive science.
Thomas Pogge is the Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University.  Having received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard, he has published widely on Kant and in moral and political philosophy, most recently, Politics as Usual.  His current work is focused on a team effort toward developing a complement to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would improve access to advanced medicines for the poor worldwide (www.healthimpactfund.org).
Mitu Sengupta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University in Toronto and is the head of research at the Centre for Development and Human Rights in Delhi. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and an MA and BA in Political Science from McGill University in Montreal. She has published widely on Indian market liberalization and development, on labor and migration, and on the politics of sporting and cultural events. Previously, she worked as a consultant for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in addition to working as an editorial writer in Delhi.
Gilad Tanay is a Ph.D. student in the Philosophy Department at Yale University. He is writing his dissertation under Stephen Darwall on the the ethical significance of moral disagreement. He received his B.A. degree in Philosophy and Psychology from the program for outstanding students at Tel-Aviv University. He is the co-founder and was the first chairman of the Israeli Student Coalition for Peace. He is the co-founder of Climate Voices, an NGO focusing on the justice and human-rights dimensions of global climate-change.