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SHORT CAREER SUMMARY

After an undergraduate degree in Modern History at Oxford University, I received a grant from the British Council for doctoral research in intellectual history at the Warburg Institute, University of London. However my advisor, Professor Charles Schmitt, died suddenly of a heart-attack (unrelated to the horror of my translations from renaissance Latin or my research papers in seventeenth century intellectual history) and, by a suitably convoluted path, I wound up doing my doctorate in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology instead. There, I swapped intellectual history for political economy and political and social theory, and wrote my doctoral thesis, ‘A Democratic Conception of Privacy’, with Joshua Cohen, Margaret Burnham and Martha Nussbaum as advisors.

I have been a Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Visiting Professor at the University of Rochester, Harvard and MIT, a Senior Fellow at the Programme in Ethics and the Professions at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and an External Fellow at the National Humanities Institute on the Right to Privacy, at Dartmouth College. Since returning to the United Kingdom I have taught Political Philosophy at the University of Reading, Philosophy and Public Policy at the London School of Economics, and have given a course of lectures on Philosophy and Public Policy at Sciences-Po in Paris.

In September 2009 I started a three year Research Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Bioethics at the Institute of Science, Ethics and Innovation, The University of Manchester School of Law, and I will be a Hoover Fellow in Economic and Social Ethics at The Catholic University, Louvain La Neuve, in Belgium in April, 2010.

For a recent version of my CV please click here.