Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh

Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh is a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. He currently lectures on ‘The Ethics of Climate Change’ and on ‘Markets and Morals’. He also collaborates with the Governance, Environment and Markets Initiative (GEM) at Yale. Dr. Gajevic Sayegh is particularly interested in climate ethics and its relation to climate policy. His current research focusses on climate justice and development, collective action, as well as on the ethics of carbon pricing. He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy from University College London in 2016. He has an ongoing book project titled ‘Justice in a Non-Ideal World’ (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, forthcoming in 2018). The book casts light on the concepts that occupy the space between political morality and real-world politics. His articles have appeared in Ethics, Policy & Environment (Forthcoming), the Journal of Global Ethics, Moral Philosophy and Politics, and the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. His recent research was supported by the FRQSC, Yale, UCL, and the SSHRC.