About this person
Martin van Hees is a Dutch philosopher who was born in Beilen on 26 July 1964. He served as professor of ethics at the University of Groningen and, from 2013, as professor of political theory at the University of Amsterdam.
He received a VICI grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research for the programme Modelling Freedom: Formal Analysis and Normative Philosophy. In 2014, he became professor of ethics at VU University Amsterdam.
He is also a senior editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy. In 2016, he took charge of John Stuart Mill College, and since March 2021 he has been dean of Amsterdam University College. His philosophical interests include the relationship between Pareto efficiency and liberalism; he is a vegetarian.