Thomas Pogge

Thomas Pogge
Pogge in 2014
Born	Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge (1953-08-13) 13 August 1953 (age 71) Poggersdorf, Carinthia, Austria
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Harvard University
Notable work	Realizing Rawls
Awards	2013 Gregory Kavka Prize in political philosophy[1]
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Institutions	Yale University Columbia University
Thesis	Kant, Rawls, and Global Justice (1983)
Doctoral advisor	John Rawls
Main interests	Political philosophy
Website	Yale University

Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge (/ˈpɒɡi/; born 13 August 1953)^[2] is a German philosopher and is the Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, United States. In addition to his Yale appointment, he is the Research Director of the Centre for the Study of the Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo, Norway, a Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University, Australia, and Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire's Centre for Professional Ethics, England. Pogge is also an editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy^[3] and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.^[4][5]