Emma Saunders-Hastings is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government. Her interests include normative democratic theory, theories of distributive justice and inequality, and the relationship between public and private power. Her dissertation examines philanthropy as a problem for political as well as for ethical theory: it treats philanthropy as one way in which private money may shape public options and asks what kinds of regulation of philanthropy are appropriate. She holds a BA (Honours) in Political Studies from Queen's University in Canada and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, where she studied as a Commonwealth Scholar.