Krzysztof Pelc is the Lester B. Pearson Professor in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Professorial Fellow at St-Anne’s College. He received his PhD from Georgetown University in 2009. Before joining Oxford, he spent his postdoc in the Niehaus Center at Princeton University, and spent over a decade at McGill University. He has been a visiting professor at NYU, the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies in New Delhi, and the University of Copenhagen. 

I am an MPhil student in Political Theory studying the history of egalitarian thought. I am primarily interested in justifications for social equality and how these justifications intersect with politics, religion, and gender/class/racial identities. Within this field, I am interested in the work of diverse thinkers such as Anne Phillips, Thomas Hobbes, Hannah Arendt, Myisha Cherry, and Judith Butler.

I am an MPhil candidate at Trinity College, University of Oxford. My research interests, broadly, are international cooperation and governance of emerging technologies and existential risks. This includes nuclear security, governance of artificial intelligence, and climate governance. However, I am currently most interested in international biodefense and pandemic prevention.