Eszter Kollar is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Economics at the Center for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven. Previously she was the Interim Chair of International Political Theory and a Research Fellow at the Normative Orders Excellence Cluster at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Prior to that she held a research position in Political Philosophy and
Bioethics at the University of Münster, was a Hoover Fellow in Economic and Social Ethics at the University of Louvain, and an Adjunct Professor of Political Theory and International Affairs at the John Cabot University in Rome. She holds a PhD in Political Theory from the Luiss University of Rome, and during her PhD she was a visiting graduate student at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public
Ethics, ANU, at the Department of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania and at King’s College London. She holds Master’s degrees from the Central European University and the Eötvös Lóránd University in Budapest.
Her research combines the political philosophy of social and global justice with a variety of problems in public affairs in the areas of migration, public health, and economic life. She is currently working on a book project theorizing fairness in labour migration for Europe and for the World, on the idea of reconciling global equality of opportunity and collective self-determination, and elaborating a relational egalitarian approach to global health justice and disaster ethics. Her broader theoretical interest lies in theories of ownership and property, justice, equality and autonomy, and normative justification. She is a co-editor of the Review of Social Economics, an organizing member of the Global Justice Network, and member of the Economic Ethics Network.