Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics (on leave from July 1, 2021) James Bryant Conant University Professor
Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. Allen will be on leave for the 2021-2022 academic year, begining July 1, 2021. ... Read more about Danielle Allen
Director, Edmond J. Safra Undergraduate Fellowship Program Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Harvard Kennedy School
Arthur Isak Applbaum is Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values at Harvard Kennedy School. He directed the graduate fellowship program from 1990 to 2009 and was acting director of the Center in 2004-2005 and 2007-2009.... Read more about Arthur I. Applbaum
Acting Director (2021-2022 Academic Year) Co-Director of Rapid Response Impact Initiatives Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Nien-hê Hsieh is Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research concerns ethical issues in business and the...
Co-Director, Graduate Fellowship Program Director, DKP Design Studio Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society
Meira Levinson is Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at Harvard Graduate School, co-director of the Graduate Fellowship Program at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and Director of the Democratic Knowledge Project. Levinson is a normative political philosopher who works at the intersection of civic education, youth empowerment, racial justice, and educational ethics.... Read more about Meira Levinson
Co-director, Graduate Fellowship Program Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy, Harvard Kennedy School
Mathias Risse is Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. His work primarily addresses questions of global justice ranging from human rights, inequality, taxation, trade and immigration to climate change, obligations to future generations and the future of technology, especially also the impact of artificial intelligence on a range of normative issues.... Read more about Mathias Risse
Director of Pedagogical Innovation, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics; Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Christopher Robichaud is Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Director of Pedagogical Innovation at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. He received his doctorate in philosophy from MIT. His interests surround ethics, political philosophy, and social epistemology, with a focus on examining the role of truth and knowledge in well-functioning democracies, and on understanding what the post-truth age of politcs is.... Read more about Christopher Robichaud
Co-director, Fellows-in-Residence Program Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
Gina Schouten received her PhD in 2013 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and prior to joining Harvard as Assistant Professor of Philosophy in 2016, occupied the same position for three years at Illinois State University. Her research interests include gender justice, educational justice, and political legitimacy. She has recently been working on projects concerning the legitimacy of political interventions to alter the gendered division of labor, in which she argues that progressive gender egalitarian political interventions can constitute legitimate exercises of political power. That work is developed in her book Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor, (Oxford University Press, 2019).
