I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy at IE University’s School of Humanities, where I hold the UNESCO Chair in AI Ethics and Governance.

My research spans political philosophy and applied ethics, with particular interests in AI, democracy, economic power, and the intersections between them. My work appears in outlets such as Journal of Business Ethics, Organization Studies, History of Political Thought, Polity, Oxford Handbook of AI Governance, and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. My first book, The Tyranny of Generosity: Why Philanthropy Corrupts Our Politics and How We Can Fix It (Oxford University Press, 2022), received an honorable mention for the ECPR Political Theory Prize. I am currently completing a second book, Recoding Democracy: AI and the Fight For Our Democratic Future, under contract with Polity Press.

As detailed here, I frequently contribute to public debates and advise organizations on navigating ethical frontiers in business, technology, and governance.

At IE University, I design and teach courses across schools, levels, and programs on technology ethics and governance, moral and political theory, and critical thinking.

I hold degrees from Harvard (A.B.) and Princeton (M.A., Ph.D.) and completed postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford, Goethe, Hertie, and Oxford, where I was an inaugural fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI.

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