About
Cécile Fabre is a distinguished Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College and Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Oxford. She is affiliated with the Faculty of Philosophy, the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Nuffield College at Oxford. With a career spanning over two decades, she has held prestigious academic positions including Tutorial Fellow at Lincoln College, Professor of Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh, and Lecturer at the London School of Economics.
Her educational background includes a BA in History from La Sorbonne (1992), an MA in Political Theory from the University of York (1993), and a D.Phil in Politics from the University of Oxford (1997).
Professor Fabre's research focuses on political philosophy, moral philosophy, and applied ethics, with particular expertise in just war theory, theories of distributive justice, democracy, and the ethics of foreign policy. Her recent work has increasingly addressed the ethics of espionage and cultural heritage. Her publications reveal a consistent pattern of examining moral obligations in international contexts, with a strong emphasis on cosmopolitan perspectives that challenge traditional state-centric approaches to justice and ethics.
Among her notable honors are being named a Fellow of the British Academy (2011) and receiving the Scots Philosophical Association Centenary Fellowship (2022).
Professor Fabre has supervised 15 doctoral students to completion, with most securing academic positions globally. She has extensive governance experience, having served on various appointment panels, as University Proctor (2018-2019), and on the Publications Committee of the British Academy since 2019. She has also contributed significantly to academic publishing as a member of numerous editorial boards and as a reviewer for major university presses and journals.
