University of Louvain

Philippe Van Parijs is a professor at the University of Louvain (Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics), a special guest professor at the University of Leuven and, currently, a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute. He is one of the founders of the Basic Income Earth Network and chairs its International Board. He is the coordinator of the Marnix Plan for a Multilingual Brussels and (with Paul De Grauwe) of the Re-Bel initiative (“Rethinking Belgium’s institutions in the European context”). His most recent books are Just Democracy. The Rawls-Machiavelli Programme (2011), Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World (2011), After the Storm. How to save democracy in Europe (2015, edited with L. van Middelaar) and Basic Income (with Y. Vanderborght, forthcoming from Harvard University Press).