Kian Mintz-Woo
Guest Research Scholar
Equity and Justice Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
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
Publications
Mintz-Woo, K. (2025). How moral philosophers can help society. Synthese 206 (6) e294. 10.1007/s11229-025-05382-z.
Steel, D., Crookall, B., Phillips, C.L., Des Roches, C.T., & Mintz-Woo, K. (2025). Freedom and the Ethics of Plant-Based Diets in University Food Services. Food Ethics 10 (2) e17. 10.1007/s41055-025-00176-y.
Fulvi, D. & Mintz-Woo, K. (2025). Assessing Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies Through Transitional Justice: Challenging the Moral Hazard Argument. Ethics, Policy & Environment 1-18. 10.1080/21550085.2025.2567824.
Mintz-Woo, K. (2025). Explicit Methodologies for Normative Evaluation in Public Policy, as Applied to Carbon Budgets. Journal of Applied Philosophy 10.1111/japp.70047. (In Press)
Hoffmann, R., Patange, O. , Zimm, C. , Pachauri, S. , Belmin, C. , Pelz, S. , Brutschin, E. , Kikstra, J. , Kuhn, M., Min, J. , Muttarak, R. , Riahi, K. , Schinko, T. , & Mintz-Woo, K. (2025). Subnational survey data reveal persistent gaps in living standards across 75 low and middle-income countries. Nature Communications 16 (1) e4986. 10.1038/s41467-025-60195-5.