Pedro Francés-Gómez

Pedro Francés-Gómez

Fulbright Research Scholar
Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy, University of Granada
Pedro Francés-Gómez

Pedro Francés-Gómez is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Granada (Spain) since 2007. He graduated in Philosophy and Law, and got his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1996). Since September 2016, he has been a member of the Executive Committee of EBEN (European Business Ethics Network). Before his current position, he held an assistant professorship at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and teaching appointments at ESADE Business School in Barcelona and the Graduate School of Business, UP Comillas in Madrid. He has held visiting scholar positions at the Universities of Pittsburgh, Northwestern, and Harvard (Department of Philosophy), as well as several Latin American Universities, including UNAM and ITESM México. His research focus lies at the intersection between the political philosophy tradition of the social contract, and business/organizational ethics; with interest in the recent evolution of corporate governance, issues of organizational justice, and rational justification of professional and organizational ethics. He has led several publicly funded research projects, exploring the link between behavioral economics, the so-called “social contract of the firm” and the principles for organizational justice. Besides scholarly books, edited volumes and dissemination works in Spanish, his research has been published, among other international outlets, in Hobbes’s Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business Ethics: A European Review. His project in the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics aims at developing the theoretical basis for a larger project about the role of business corporations in a just society. This involves arguing for a liberal- egalitarian principle of organizational justice within a liberal-egalitarian economic constitution, and a social-contract approach to the legitimacy of business.

Pedro Francés-Gómez will be at Harvard through June 2018.