Florian Ostmann

Florian Ostmann

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Florian Ostmann is a MPP candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School and holds a PhD in Political Philosophy from University College London. He is interested in questions at the intersection between political philosophy and economic policy, and in ethical questions concerning the behavior of individual agents in the market sphere. In his PhD thesis, Ostmann developed an account of fairness with respect to the distribution of economic gains between corporate actors in international supply chains. During his time as an Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellow, he intends to expand his work by examining moral demands related to the distributive implications of consumer choices and to the distribution of economic gains within firms. In doing so, he plans to give particular attention to the implications of a growing ‘platform economy’ and the prospect of increasing job automation. In addition to his work on economic issues, Ostmann also has a strong interest in bioethics. He holds a BA in Philosophy and Social Sciences from Humboldt University Berlin, a MA in Legal and Political Theory from University College London, and has been a visiting student at Yale and the Australian National University.

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