Cecile Fabre

Council Member at University of Oxford

Professor Cécile Fabre is a Senior Research Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford. She specialises in political philosophy. She obtained a BA in History from La Sorbonne University, and a MA in Political Theory from the University of York. She completed her D.Phil in Oxford, before taking a postdoctoral fellowship at Nuffield College. She has taught at the London School of Economics, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Oxford. In 2018-2019, she served as University Proctor. Her research interests include theories of distributive justice, issues relating to the rights they have over the own body and, more recently, just war theory, and the ethics of foreign policy. Her books include Cosmopolitan War (OUP 2012), Cosmopolitan Peace Cosmopolitan Peace (OUP 2016), Economic Statecraft (Harvard UP 2018). In her most recent book, Spying Through a Glass Darkly (OUP, forthcoming 2022), she investigates the ethics of espionage. She was elected to the British Academy in 2011.