# Mathias Risse Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights. Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy; Director, Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School. ![Headshot of Mathias Risse.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-08/risse-mathias.png?h=724082a5&itok=OY8j2bQq) location\_on 79 JFK Street, Eliot 209, Cambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [(617) 495-9811]() email [mathias\_risse@harvard.edu](mailto:mathias_risse@harvard.edu) laptop\_windows [Personal website](https://www.mathiasrisse.com/) **Research interests:** Global justice; questions at the intersection of political philosophy, economic theory, and political science; ethics and public policy; philosophical aspects of globalization; group rationality; and social choice theory. **Pronouns**: he/him - ## People Categories [Affiliates](/affiliates) [Faculty Associates](/affiliates/faculty_associates) [Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights](/people-categories/global-lgbtqi-human-rights)