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Kian Mintz-Woo

Guest Research Scholar

Equity and Justice Research Group

Population and Just Societies

Biography

Kian Mintz-Woo is a guest researcher in the Equity and Justice Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program. He is a permanent lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at University College Cork, Ireland. He is also affiliated with the University’s Environmental Research Institute and directs a multidisciplinary master’s programme, “Health and Society”, which focuses on philosophy, public health, and economics.


He is a member of the Irish Government's Carbon Budgets' Working Group, where he helps to propose and support national planning. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, Mintz-Woo co-authored a piece discussing climate policy in this time (co-authored with the moral philosopher Peter Singer), which became a journal article.

Recently, he has been engaging in various forms of public science communication. He was quoted by the Wall Street Journal for an article on financial literacy, and has written for, been radio interviewed, and quoted by the Irish media on climate change. In addition, Mintz-Woo was a featured American Philosophical Association member in July 2020, and he engaged with Irish Taoiseach and Canadian politicians about carbon taxes. This public work was recognized with an award for public philosophy by the International Society for Environmental Ethics in 2021.

You can find out more about him on ORCiD, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, or PhilPeople. His publications are listed below.

His favorite food is lemon sorbet.



Last update: 23 OCT 2023