About
Alex Voorhoeve is Vice President and Pro Vice Chancellor for Faculty Development and Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and in the School of Public Policy.
He studied economics and philosophy at Erasmus University, Cambridge University, and UCL. He joined the LSE in 2004 and has worked there ever since, alongside visiting positions at Harvard (2008-09), Princeton (2012-13), the National Institutes of Health, U.S. (2016-17), Erasmus University Rotterdam (2017-21), and Nuffield College, Oxford (2024-25). He works on the theory and practice of distributive and procedural justice (especially as it relates to health), on rational choice theory, moral psychology, and Epicureanism.
He has acted as a consultant on justice in health to the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and has serves as a member of the Bank of England's and UK Treasury's Academic Advisory Group on the development of a "digital pound".
Research Interests
- Distributive justice
- Procedural justice
- Philosophy and public policy (esp. health)
- Moral psychology
- Epicureanism
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