CURRICULUM VITAE Thomas Ferretti Address : Rue de la Victoire 36 (b5) 1060 Saint-Gilles, Brussels (Belgium) Phone : 02 537 67 91 E-mail : thomas.ferretti1@gmail.com Expertise and Research Interests: Political Philosophy; Theories of Justice; Inequalities; Economic Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility; Economic Organizations; Cooperatives; Workplace Democracy; Risk management; Collaborative Consumption Education Ph.D. in Philosophy (In progress) 2011-2016 Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) (Belgium) Chaire Hoover d éthique économique et sociale Doctoral Thesis: Social justice and egalitarian organizations Supervisor: Axel Gosseries (axel.gosseries@uclouvain.be), Philosophy, UCL Comity: Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton), Simon Deakin (Cambridge) Expected Thesis Defense: June 2016 M.A. in Philosophy 2009-2011 Université de Montréal (UdeM) (Canada) Centre de recherches en éthique (CRE) Master Thesis: Le rôle des entreprises dans la distribution des richesses Supervisor: Peter Dietsch (peter.dietsch@umontreal.ca), Philosophy, UdeM Graduation: August 2011 (Deans Honors). GPA: 4.3/4.3 (A+) B.A. in Philosophy 2006-2009 Université de Montréal (UdeM) (Canada) Graduation: June 2009 (Deans Honors). GPA: 3.8/4.3 (A-) Research Stays (Ph.D.) Princeton University (USA) (Forthcoming) January 25 th March 1 st 2016 Center for Human Values. Host: Professor Marc Fleurbaey (Travel grant from the Institut supérieur de philosophie, UCL) University of York (United Kingdom) April 25 th - June 1 st 2014 Department of Politics. Host: Professor Martin O Neill (Travel grant from the French Community in Belgium) Mondragon University and Int. Inst. Sociology of Law (Spain) March 27 th - April 20 th 2014 Faculty of Management and IISL. Host: Professor Rafa Altuna (Travel grant from the Institut supérieur de philosophie, UCL)
2 Scholarships and Awards (Ph.D. and M.A.) - Ph.D Scholarships : Québec Communauté française de Belgique Scholarship (Ph.D.) 2015-2016 Wallonie-Bruxelles international (WBI) & 2013-2014 36.000 Euros (12.000 Euros, three times) & 2012-2013 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship (Ph.D.) 2011-2015 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Center of Canada (SSHRC) (I declined the A scholarship and accepted the B Scholarship to go abroad) 80.000 $CAN (20.000 $CAN each year) Doctoral Research Scholarship (Ph.D.) 2011 Fond de Recherche du Québec Société et Culture (FRQSC) 60.000 $CAN (I declined this scholarship in favor of the SSHRC) - M.A. Scholarships : Master Research Scholarship (M.A.) 2010-2011 Fond de Recherche du Québec Société et Culture (FRQSC) 15.000 $CAN Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship (M.A.) 2009-2010 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Center of Canada (SSHRC) 17.500 $CAN - M.A. Awards : Membership Grant : GRIPP 2010-2011 Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique de Montréal (GRIPP) (UdeM & McGill) Membership include participation to conferences and a presentation 2000 $CAN (I was a member of the GRIPP but I declined the funding). Award: Bourse d excellence Olivier-Maurault 2010 Faculté des Arts et Sciences, Université de Montréal Rewarding academic achievement and social involvement 3000 $CAN Award: Bourse d excellence 2010 Fonds d amélioration de la vie étudiante (FAÉCUM) & Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, Université de Montréal Rewarding academic achievement and social involvement 2500 $CAN Selected Publications Peer-reviewed articles Ferretti, Thomas (Submitted: Sept. 17 th 2015) Liberal Egalitarianism and the Indexing Problem: Which combination of primary goods can maximize effective freedom?, Economics and Philosophy Ferretti, Thomas (Accepted: Aug. 14 th 2015) Mondragon in five points: Advantages and challenges of worker cooperatives, Renewal A Journal of Social Democracy Dietsch, Peter & Ferretti, Thomas (2010) Deux manières de présenter le défi de la justice globale, Mouvements, Paris: La Découverte, No. 64, pp. 64-75
3 Book reviews Ferretti, Thomas (Accepted: Jul. 17 th 2015) Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls And Beyond, M. O NEILL & T. WILLIAMSON (eds.), 2012, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, Journal of Applied Philosophy Ferretti, Thomas (2014) Book review: Tom MALLESON. After Occupy: Economic Democracy for the 21rst Century. Oxford University Press, 2014. 275 pp., Ethical Perspectives, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 627-631 French translation: Ferretti, Thomas (2015) Recension: Tom Malleson, After Occupy: Economic Democracy for the 21rst Century, Les Ateliers de l Éthique, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 155-162 Newspaper Articles Ferretti, Thomas & Danielle Zwarthoed (August 1 st 2015) Interdire la pub destinée aux enfants, La Libre Belgique, Business Section (National Newspaper in Belgium) Ferretti, Thomas (April 6 th 2013) Liberté d expression en enterprise, La Libre Belgique, Business Section (National Newspaper in Belgium) Ferretti, Thomas (October 16 th 2012) John Stuart Mill et l Année internationale des coopératives, Le Devoir (National Newspaper in Quebec) Ferretti, Thomas, Lambrecht, Maxime & Aubert, Vincent (May 16 th 2012) Il n'y a pas lieu de fêter le Tax Freedom Day, Le Devoir (National Newspaper in Quebec) In progress Ferretti, Thomas (In progress) Egalitarian and Inegalitarian Organizations: Reframing the Debate between Property-Owning Democracy and Welfare State Capitalism Ferretti, Thomas (In progress) Two Liberal Egalitarian Arguments against Inegalitarian Organizations Selected Presentations (Ph.D.) Ferretti, Thomas (May 28 th 2015) Workplace democracy as a distributive tool, Workshop: Power and deliberation inside the firm, Chaire Hoover, Universtité catholique de Louvain (Belgium) Ferretti, Thomas (March 16 th 2015) Egalité politique et pouvoir dans l entreprise, Doctoral Seminar: Penser l égalité politique, Chaire Hoover, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) Ferretti, Thomas (March 10 th 2015) Quand l État peut-il intervenir dans les associations?, Mardis intimes de la Chaire Hoover, Chaire Hoover, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Ferretti, Thomas (February 27 th 2015), Sir Wolf Should Run: Real Freedom and the Substitutability of Primary Social Goods, Aahrus-Louvain Workshop, University of Aahrus (Danemark) Ferretti, Thomas (January 27 th 2015) Liberté réelle et substituabilité des biens premiers sociaux, Vives Doctoral Seminar, Chaire Hoover, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) Ferretti, Thomas (November 27 th, 2014) Mondragon en cinq points, Workshop: Démocratie d entreprise, Université catholique de Lille (France) Ferretti, Thomas (September 5 th, 2014) Libéralisme égalitaire et réglementation du système socioéconomique: Organisations égalitaires ou État-providence capitaliste?, Midis de l éthique du Centre de recherche en éthique, CRE, Université de Montréal (Canada) Ferretti, Thomas (July 18 th 2014) Welfare State Capitalism and its discontents: Clarifying an old intuition, Summer School on Political Philosophy and Public Policy: Property Owning Democracy and Predistribution, Université du Minho, Braga (Portugal)
4 Ferretti, Thomas (June 13 th 2014) Justifying State Intervention to Make Firms Structure More Egalitarian, Brave New World Conference, University of Manchester (United Kingdom) Ferretti, Thomas (May 14 th 2014) An argument for State intervention in firms structure, Morrell Political Theory Workshop, University of York (United Kingdom) Ferretti, Thomas (April 14 th 2014) Political Philosophy, Initial Distribution and Cooperatives, Mondragon University, Oñati (Spain) Ferretti, Thomas (March 11 th 2014) Pour la prédistribution, Mardis intimes de la Chaire Hoover, Chaire Hoover, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) Ferretti, Thomas (November 12 th 2013) Libéralisme égalitaire, prédistribution et redistribution, Séminaire des doctorants, Université catholique de Lille (France) Thomas Ferretti (October 22 nd 2013) What is Predistribution?, Vives Doctoral Seminar, Chaire Hoover, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) Ferretti, Thomas (November 8 th 2012). A Maximum Income: Good or Bad Idea?, International Bernheim Workshop: Fair CEO Compensation, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) Ferretti, Thomas (September 8 th 2012). Promoting cooperatives and workplace democracy to fight exploitation, 15th Summer School on History of Economic Thought, Economic Philosophy and Economic History, Université de Lille 1 & Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne (France) Ferretti, Thomas (May 10 th 2012). Desing institutionnel et justice sociale, ACFAS Annual Conference, Workshop: Une philosophie politique de l'entreprise?, Montreal (Canada) Ferretti, Thomas (February 15 th 2012). Corporate social responsibility and its limits, The CSR Research Seminar: Shaping the Future of CSR Research, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School (Belgium) Conferences, Seminars and Summer Schools (Ph.D.) Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) February - April 2015 Seminar: Penser l égalité politique Professor Hervé Pourtois (UCL) University of Minho, Braga (Portugal) July 14 th -18 th 2014 Summer School: Political Philosophy and Public Policy: Property Owning Democracy and Predistribution Keynote speakers: Stuart White (Oxford), Martin O Neill (York) University of Manchester (United Kingom) June 12 th -13 th 2014 Conference: Brave new world Conference Keynote speaker: Bob Goodin (Australian National University) Université de Lille 1 & Paris 1 Sorbonne, Lille (France) September 3 rd -8 th 2012 Summer School: 15th Summer School on History of Economic Thought, Economic Philosophy and Economic History Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School (Belgium) February 15 th -16 th 2012 Conference: The CSR Research Seminar: Shaping the Future of CSR Research Université catholique de Louvain et KULeuven (Belgium) October 2011 - March 2012 Seminar: Lovanium Seminar in Ethics and Public Policy Professor Philippe Van Parijs (UCL) and Professor Antoon Vandevelde (KULeuven)
5 Teaching Experience Teaching: Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility April 2015 Intensive Master Seminar, Sciences Po, Lille (France) Main professor: Thierry Ngosso (UCL) Philosophy Associate teachers: Thomas Ferretti, Maxime Lambrecht, Vincent Aubert Participating in the creation, planning, teaching and grading of an intensive master seminar Teaching the first three-hour class on CSR Teaching support: Ethique économique, sociale et politique 2015 Undergraduate Course, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) (Belgium) & 2014 Main professor: Philippe Van Parijs (UCL) Philosophy & 2013 Helping students during the class and grading exams & 2012 Supervision: Certificate in Economic and Social Ethics March - August 2015 Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) (Belgium) & March - August 2014 Main professor: Professor Hervé Pourtois (UCL) Philosophy Supervising and grading the final paper of two students Invited Lecturer: Méta-Metis Course March 26 th 2014 Undergraduate Course, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) Main professor: Tanguy Isaac (UCL) Economics Giving a 2-hours-lecture entitled Ethics and consumerism Research Experience Research assistant June - August 2010 Université de Montréal (Canada) & May - September 2008 Professor Peter Dietsch, Philosophy Research Project: Tax competition and distributive justice: How to meet the normative and political challenge (CRSH 2010 and FRQSC 2006) Research assistant June - August 2009 Ecole nationale d administration publique (ENAP) (Canada) Professor Yves Boisvert, Public Policy (Public Policy Lab) Research Project: Elderly and Gambling Problems (FRQSC 2009) Organization Experience Convener: Workshop on Power and Deliberation Inside the Firm May 28 th, 2015 Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Chaire Hoover International video-conference workshop https://www.uclouvain.be/512303.html Co-convener: Andrea Felicetti Co-convener: Vives Doctoral Seminar 2013-2015 Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Chaire Hoover Regular doctoral seminar organized at the Chaire Hoover Co-conveners: Tim Meijers, Pierre-Etienne Vandamme Co-convener: Workshop on Discrimination June 13 th - 14 th 2013 Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Louvain-Aarhus Project International workshop Main convener: Professor Axel Gosseries
6 Other Professional Experience Reviewer: Diacritica August 2015 Reviewing an article for the fall 2015 issue of Diacritica Contact: Roberto Merrill (nrbmerrill@gmail.com) Translation: World Health Organization (WHO) November 2014 Reviewing the translation from English to French Report of the consultative group of the World Health Organization on ethics and health - Original report: Ottersen T., Norheim O.F. (2014) Making fair choices on the path to universal health coverage - Translated report in French: Ottersen T., Norheim O.F. (2014) Faire des choix justes pour une couverture sanitaire universelle Contact: Tessa Edejer (tantorrest@who.int) Civil Society Activity Human Rights League (Brussels) 2012 2015 - Member of the Commission on Socio-Economic Rights - Organizer and regular speaker for the educational project: Youth & Politics Topics: Mandatory voting, Freedom of expression inside the firm, Privacy and big data - Organizer and regular speaker for the educational project: Café-philo du Théâtre Varia Topics: Work and identity, Meaningful work - Invited speaker for the project: Débats en musique du Théâtre de Poche Topics: Freedom of expression inside the firm, Workplace democracy Contact: Olivier Boutry (oboutry@liguedh.be) Association des Étudiants en Philosophie de l'université de Montréal (ADEPUM) 2008 2009 President of the student association Philosophy department, Université de Montréal. I also served in previous years as vice-president and academic counselor Language Skills French: Mother tongue. English: Full working proficiency (TOEFL (Dec. 3 rd 2010): 108 / 120) Spanish: Basic speaking and writing. Good passive understanding and reading References Prof. Axel Gosseries, Chaire Hoover, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) axel.gosseries@uclouvain.be Prof. Philippe Van Parijs, Chaire Hoover, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) philippe.vanparijs@uclouvain.be Prof. Peter Dietsch, CRE, Université de Montréal (Canada) peter.dietsch@umontreal.ca Olivier Boutry, Human Rights League, Brussels (Belgium) oboutry@liguedh.be