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

My research spans political philosophy and applied ethics, with particular interests in the relationship between artificial intelligence and democratic ideals, the responsibilities of technology companies, and the ethics of private efforts to address public problems. 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 working on second book, tentatively titled Recoding Democracy: AI and the Fight For Democracy’s Future, under contract with Polity Press.

I am a member of UNESCO AI Ethics Experts Without Borders, an officer of the ECPR Political Theory Standing Group, a managing director of the Compass Ethics consulting network, and co-chair of the 8th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. 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.