| Ingrid Robeyns | |
| Birth Name: | Ingrid A. M. Robeyns |
| Birth Date: | 10 September 1972 |
| Birth Place: | Leuven, Belgium |
| Nationality: | Dutch and Belgian |
| Alma Mater: | KU Leuven (Lic., MSc) Open University (MA) University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | Gender Inequality: A Capability Perspective |
| Thesis Year: | 2002 |
| School Tradition: | Capability Approach |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Amartya Sen |
| Influences: | Martha Nussbaum |
| Workplaces: | Utrecht University Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| Main Interests: | Welfare economics, development economics, ethics |
| Notable Ideas: | Human development theory, Limitarianism (ethical) |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Ingrid A. M. Robeyns (born 1972) is a Dutch philosopher who holds the Chair Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities and the associated Ethics Institute.[2]
Robeyns is also a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) and was elected the association's eighth president in April 2017.[3] She is a notable advocate of economic limitarianism (ethical).
Robeyns is from Leuven, Belgium. She earned a Belgian licentiate qualification in economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU 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 economics came from the University of Cambridge in 2003. Her dissertation was on gender inequality and the capability approach. Robeyns also has an MA in philosophy from the Open University (2007).[4]
Robeyns claimed dual Dutch/Belgian citizenship in 2013.[5]
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.[6] In 2018 Robeyns was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[7]