Ingrid Robeyns

Ingrid Robeyns
Robeyns in 2014
Born	10 September 1972 Leuven, Belgium
Nationality	Dual Dutch and Belgian
Institution	University of Utrecht
Field	Welfare economics, development economics, ethics
School or tradition	Capability Approach
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Influences	Amartya Sen Martha Nussbaum
Contributions	Human development theory

Ingrid A.M. Robeyns (born 1972) holds the Chair Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities and the associated Ethics Institute.

Robeyns is also a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA).

Robeyns is from Leuven in Belgium. She gained a Belgium licentiate qualification in economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (the Catholic University of Leuven) in 1994. She went on to study social and political science in Germany at the Georg August Universität, Göttingen (University of Göttingen). Robeyns returned to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for her MSc in economics which she completed in 1997.

Her doctorate in philosophy and economics came from the University of Cambridge in 2003, her dissertation was on gender inequality and the capacity approach. Robeyns also has an MA in philosophy from the Open University (2007).

In 2006 the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded her a five-year Vidi grant for research on theories of justice. The research considers what the question of justice means within the welfare state for children, parents and non-parents.

Robeyns claimed dual Dutch / Belgium citizenship in 2013.

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Robeyns is a member of the Crooked Timber group blog, these are some of her blogs.

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