Professor Dr Thomas Pogge
Professor Dr Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University since 2008. Before, for about 25 years, he taught philosophy and political sciences at Columbia University in New York. He is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics of the Australian National University and Research Director at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo.
His central research areas are the philosophy of Kant and Rawls and Political Philosophy, here especially questions of international justice. The Health Impact Fund - an alternative incentive system for pharmaceutical research industry which shall enable access to essential medication for the poor as well - was significantly co-developed by him and caused world-wide attentention.
Among his numerous publications are: Politics as Usual: What Lies behind the Pro-Poor Rhetoric (Cambridge: Polity Press 2010); Gerechtigkeit in der Einen Welt, with responses by Julian Nida-Rümelin, Wolfgang Thierse, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul and Gert Weißkirchen (Essen: Klartext Verlag 2009). The Health Impact Fund: Making New Medicines Accessible for All, authored with Aidan Hollis (Incentives for Global Health, 2008). World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms, second, expanded edition (Cambridge: Polity Press 2008)