Mathias Risse is Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His work primarily addresses questions of global justice ranging from human rights, inequality, taxation, trade and immigration to climate change, obligations to future generations and the future of technology. He has also worked on questions in ethics, decision theory and 19th century German philosophy, especially Nietzsche. In addition to the Harvard Kennedy School, he teaches in Harvard College and the Harvard Extension School, and he is affiliated with the Harvard philosophy department. He has also been involved with executive education both at Harvard and in collaboration with international organizations. Risse is the author of On Global Justice and Global Political Philosophy. He is currently completing a co-authored book on trade justice tentatively entitled On Trade Justice: A Philosophical Plea for a New Global Deal. Risse serves as Co-Director of Graduate Studies at the Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics, Acting Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, as well as Director of the McCloy program, a prestigious fellowship program for German students. Risse has been the organizer of a number of major international conferences at Harvard and a co-organizer of several more such events in East and South East Asia (Singapore, Seoul and Shanghai), as a way of fostering collaboration among political philosophers and representatives of other fields across cultural divides. He has been a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore. New York University Abu Dhabi and Leuphana University in Germany.