Krzysztof Pelc is the Lester B. Pearson Professor in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Professorial Fellow at St-Anne’s College. He received his PhD from Georgetown University in 2009. Before joining Oxford, he spent his postdoc in the Niehaus Center at Princeton University, and spent over a decade at McGill University. He has been a visiting professor at NYU, the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies in New Delhi, and the University of Copenhagen. 

I am an MPhil student in Political Theory studying the nature of, and justification for, equality as a political and social value. My dissertation will examine Hannah Arendt's conception of equality as a commitment in conversation with Black Feminist perspectives from Bernice Johnson Reagon and Barbara Smith, among others.

I am an MPhil candidate at Trinity College, University of Oxford. My research interests are the governance of emerging technologies and existential risks. This includes nuclear security, governance of artificial intelligence, and climate governance. However, I am currently most interested in international biodefense and pandemic prevention. In particular, I am interested in what institutions and norms are needed to ensure effective biotechnology governance; bioterrorism prevention; effective disease surveillance, and a coordinated outbreak countermeasure response.