Carnegie Council

Matt Peterson is a post-graduate fellow in the Global Justice Program at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. His work focuses on contributions that global political and economic structures make to human rights violations.

Peterson is an active member of the Health Impact Fund project, which aims to improve access to medicines among the world's poor. He is also the producer of Public Ethics Radio, a podcast that engages ethicists in discussion of pressing political dilemmas.

Peterson was a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne Philosophy Department in 2008, and has worked previously at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and the Carnegie Council. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy and International Relations from Tufts University and an M.S. in International Relations from the London School of Economics.

Resources by this Author:

• Ethics in a Violent World (2005-2006)
• Public Ethics Radio (Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, and Carnegie Council)
• Public Ethics Radio (Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, and Carnegie Council)
• Public Ethics Radio: Christopher Heath Wellman on Immigration and Citizenship
• Public Ethics Radio: Christopher Heath Wellman on Immigration and Citizenship
• Public Ethics Radio: Hilary Charlesworth on Bills of Rights
• Public Ethics Radio: Hilary Charlesworth on Bills of Rights
• Public Ethics Radio: Michael Selgelid on Infectious Diseases
• Public Ethics Radio: Michael Selgelid on Infectious Diseases
• Public Ethics Radio: David Singh Grewal on Network Power
• Public Ethics Radio: David Singh Grewal on Network Power
• Public Ethics Radio: Jeff McMahan on Proportionality
• Public Ethics Radio: Jeff McMahan on Proportionality
• Public Ethics Radio: Discretionary Time
• Public Ethics Radio: Discretionary Time
• Public Ethics Radio: Larry Temkin on Extending Human Lifespans
• Public Ethics Radio: Larry Temkin on Extending Human Lifespans
• Public Ethics Radio: Larry May on Habeas Corpus
• Public Ethics Radio: Larry May on Habeas Corpus
• Public Ethics Radio: Leif Wenar on the Resource Curse
• Public Ethics Radio: Leif Wenar on the Resource Curse
• Public Ethics Radio: Jessica Wolfendale on Torture Lite
• Public Ethics Radio: Jessica Wolfendale on Torture Lite
• Public Ethics Radio: Thomas Pogge on Pharmaceutical Innovation
• Public Ethics Radio: Thomas Pogge on Pharmaceutical Innovation