About

I am Professor of Philosophy in the Research School of the Social Sciences (RSSS) at the ANU. During the 2026-2027 northern academic year I will be a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values (UCHV). My research is mostly in moral and political philosophy, with a view to informing questions of public policy and institutional design. Lately I’ve been working with on the topic of the ethics of imposing risk on others and on broader questions of environmental philosophy, particularly in relation to so-called net zero targets. My publications include books with Sanjay Reddy, International Trade and Labour Standards: A Proposal for Linkage (Columbia University Press, 2008), and Gerhard Øverland, Responding to Global Poverty: Harm, Responsibility, and Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and articles in many journals in philosophy, politics, IR, and law. I used to edit the journal Ethics & International Affairs and am currently Co-Editor Political Philosophy and Associate Editor at Ethics. I’ve been Head of School in Philosophy at the ANU and Director of the Research School of the Social Sciences. Prior to joining the ANU I worked at University College Dublin, The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and the UNDP. I was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities of Australia in 2019. I’m currently working on two books, one (with Kate Macdonald) on ethical consumerism, the other (with Garrett Cullity) on the ethics of net zero, both of which are under contract with Oxford University Press.