Mathieu Thierry Ngosso

• 2004 Licence (BA) in
  Philosophy, Catholic University of Central Africa 8UCAC, Cameroon
• 2005 Maitrise in Philosophy, UCAC
• 2009 DEA (Master) in Philosophy, UCAC
• 2015 PhD in Philosophy, Catholic University of Louvain 

• Thierry Ngosso (1981)
  studied Philosophy at the Catholic University of Central Africa (2000-2005 – Maitrise in 2005) and the University of Yaoundé I (DEA/Master in 2009)
• 2011-2013: Assistant Lecturer at the Catholic University of Central Africa
• 2015: PhD in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain
• 2015-present: Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Business Ethics of the University of St.Gallen
• 2015-2017: Guest Lecturer at EDHEC Business School, Lille (France)
• 2015: Guest Lecturer, Science-Po_Lille (France)
• 2018-2019: Faculty Berggruen Fellowship at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics of Harvard University
• 2015-present: Adjunct Lecturer at the Catholic University of Central Africa
• 2019: Director of the newly established Ethics and Public Policy Laboratory of the Catholic University of Central Africa
• 2019-present: Guest Professor at the department of Philosophy of the University of Maroua (Cameroon)
• 2019-2023: Ambizione Fellow, Swiss National Science Foundation
• 2020-present: Managing director of the Competence Center for African Research, University of St.Gallen

• Fall 2021: University of Fribourg (Fribourg, Switzerland), Bachelor and Master Levels: Issues of Sustainable Development (with Ivo Wallimann-Helmer)
• Fall 2021: University of St. Gallen (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Bachelor Level: Corporate Responsibility in Sub-Saharan Africa: Poverty, Health Care and Human Rights
• Fall 2020: University of St. Gallen (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Bachelor Level: Corporate Responsibility in Sub-Saharan Africa: Corruption, Health Care and Climate Change
• 2019 - 2020: UCAC (Yaoundé, Cameroon), Bachelor Level: Special Issues of Ethics / UCAC (Yaoundé, Cameroon), Bachelor Level: Introduction to metaethics
• Fall 2019: University of St. Gallen (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Master Level: Corporate Responsibility in Sub-Saharan Africa: Corruption, Health Care and Climate Change
• Fall 2018: University of St. Gallen (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Master Level: Corporate Responsibility in Sub-Saharan Africa: Corruption, Health Care and Climate Change
• 2015 - 2016: UCAC (Yaoundé, Cameroon), Bachelor Level: Introduction to Moral Philosophy
• April 2015: EDHEC Business School (Lille, France), Bachelor Level: The Function of the Firm 
• 2011 - 2013: Science Po Lille (Lille, France) Master Level: Corporate Responsibility and Climate Change
• 2012 - 2013: UCAC (Yaoundé, Cameroon), Bachelor Level: Introduction to Moral Philosophy / Major Seminary Queen of Apostles (Otélé, Cameroon) Bachelor Level: Introduction to Moral Philosophy 

• 1-7/06/2021 Covid-19 and comparative analysis between Cameroon and Spain, Roundtable, Department of Philosophy, University of Oviedo
• 28-29/06/2021 Thoughts on Covid-19 vaccine equity and justice from critical lens: Focus on African Perspective (With Dr. Kebene Wodaho), Brocher Workshop, Brocher Foundation, Geneva
• 27-29/04/2021 Thoughts on Covid-19 vaccine equity and justice from critical lens: Focus on African Perspective, Workshop, Department of Philosophy and Psychology, University of Maroua, Cameroon
• 21/04/2020: Coronavirus: What is at stake for Africa, MICH, Hoover Chair, Catholic University of Louvain
• 20/04/2019: What, if Anything, do African societies owe to their own citizens in terms of Health care, Berggruen Workshop, EthicsLab Launch Week, Yaoundé, UCAC, Cameroon
• 30/04/2019: From the Yaoundé Seminars to the EthicsLab: Meditations on an institutional-building and intellectual journey, Faculty Seminar, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
• 03/05/2019: What, if Anything, do African societies owe to their own citizens in terms of Health care, Exhibition, Ratcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University
• 31/01/2020: What, if Anything at all, do African societies owe to their own citizens in terms of Health care, Brocher Workshop, Geneva
• 16/10/18: Africa, University of St.Gallen, Africa Summit on ‘Regional Solutions to Global Challenges’
• 8-10/02/18: Acceptable Pollution versus Unacceptable Pollution: Do Burdened Societies Owe Strong Climate Obligations to Their Citizens? University of Tasmania,
• 14-15/02/17: International Conference on ‘Imagining a Different Future: Overcoming the Barriers of Climate Change’, organized by Peter Lawrence et Jan Linehan
• 12/12/17: The Place, Ownership and Number of Children in Bantu Societies: Some Challenges to Ecological Limits? University of Utrecht, International Workshop on Ecological Limits and Population Size, organized by Ingrid Robeyns
• 17/02/17: Acceptable Pollution versus Unacceptable Pollution: Do Burdened Societies Owe Strong Climate Obligations to Their Citizens? MICH, Hoover Chair, Catholic University of Louvain
• 03/02/17: Should Firms be Morally Neutral? University of Colorado-Boulder, Department of Philosophy
• 22/08/16: Where Should Corporate Responsibility Stop? University of Colorado-Boulder, Department of Philosophy
• 01/06/16: Four Delimitations of Corporate Responsibility Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaoundé PhD Seminar/Postdoc Workshop
• 08/06/16: Arguing for Firm Neutrality Catholic University of Central Africa, Faculty of Philosophy, Conference
• 29/08/15: Four Delimitations of Corporate Responsibility Catholic University of Central Africa, Faculty of Social Science, Conference
• 30/04/15: Défis intergénérationnels pour l’Afrique Sub-saharienne : Est-il possible de concilier l’urgence pour le développement et l’urgence de la protection de la planète ?  The New York Forum for Africa & Conference of the African Association of International Law, Libreville
• 14/04/15: Business Corporations as Primary Agents of Climate justice, Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands), Institute of Ethics, Lunch Lecture
• 29/10/14: From Profitabilism to Productivism: Challenging the Profit-Maximization Approach of Firm’s Purpose, University of Innsbruck (Innsbruck, Austria), Department of Philosophy
• 25/03/14: From the Duty of Assistance to the Duty of Just Savings: Egalitarian Defense of Firms’ Climate Duties Towards Future Generations, Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands), Institute of Ethics, ESF Research Networking Programme
• 12/12/13: ‘Rights to a Green Future’, Final Conference Les entreprises doivent-elles être moralement neutres? Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) Hoover Chair (MICH)
• 08/11/13: What Do Firms Owe to Future Generations in Terms of Climate Justice? Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands), Institute of Ethics (Lunch seminar)
• 30/10/13: Do Firms Have Special Obligations? UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), Bernheim International: “Social Responsibility and the Institutional Division of Moral Labour”
• 29/10/13: Should the Catholic Church be Democratic? (Debate with Father Theodore Mbarga)Vienna University (Vienna, Austria) Institute for Social Ethic.
• 28/10/13: Role Obligations versus General Obligations: The Case of Firms’ Special Obligations Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark), Department of Political Science and Government
• 16/10/13: Role Obligations versus General Obligations: The Case of Firms’ Special Obligations Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark), Department of Philosophy (Seminar session)
• 28/08/13: The Case for Firm Neutrality, Vienna University (Vienna, Austria) Institute for Social Ethic.
• 20/06/13: L’entreprise est-elle un agent moral comme les autres?, CUCA (Yaoundé, Cameroon), Yaoundé-PhD Seminar- Theories of Justice 2013: Justice and Agents of Justice. Yaoundé
• 17/06/13: The Right to Development of Developing Countries: An Argument Against Environmental Protection, UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), International ESF/ARC Workshop on “Developing Countries and Duties Towards the Future”, Louvain-la-Neuve, 20-21/06/2013
• 24/05/13: Do Firms have to be Neutral like States? Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark), Department of Political Science and Government
• 30/04/13: Les entreprises ont-elles des obligations comme les autres agents moraux ? Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Laboratoire PhiCo (Paris, France), Seconde Session de l’Atelier d’éthique Appliquée
• 27/07/12: Moraliser les entreprises : Pourquoi et Comment ? Centre Placet Asbl (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), Echanges Nord/Sud-Sud/Sud
• 15/02/12: Trois raisons de s’opposer aux fonds vautours, RD Congo Embassy (Brussels, Belgium), Opening the 5th issue of the journal Dounia
• 05/01/12: Vlerick Leuven G.M.S. (Ghent, Belgium), Seminar on Shaping the Future of CSR Research
• 07/11/11: Dette écologique, un outil au service de la justice environnementale? Science-Po Paris & Ile de France Region (Paris, France), Symp. : Ecological Debt?
• 15/09/11: Are Vulture Funds Necessarily Unfair? K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Disputationes Lovanienses, Workshop
• 13/05/11: Egalité et neutralité dans l’entreprise, Univ. of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland), Symp.: What Equalities in Contemporary Democracy?
• 08/04/11: Social Responsibility of Food Multinational and the Issue of Fair Price, CUCA (Yaoundé, Cameroon), Symp. on Social responsibility of business in Cameroon
• 23/12/10: Jean Marc Ela: Un héritage sans testament, GRIASS (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique), Study day in the honour of J.-M. Ela
• 25/02/10: L’intellectuel catholique africain et sa mission, CACU (Yaoundé, Cameroun), Symp. on Fides et Ratio, ten years later

• 2010-2014: Member, ARC project on ‘Sustainability’, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
• 2010-2014: Member, Bernheim Project ‘Social Responsibility in Economic Life’, Bernheim Foundation
• 2011-present: Referee for Ethical Perspective (Journal), Ithaque and Dicopo (online journals)
• 2011-2015: Member, ESF Research Network, ‘Right to a Green Future’, European Union Program
• 2012-2018: Main organizer of five editions of ‘The Yaoundé Seminar’, International Summer School on Theories of Justice, Catholic University of Central Africa, Cameroon
• 2016-present: Member, International Scientific committee, Ethica, University of Rimouski, Canada
• 2016-present: Associate Member, Hoover Chair of Social and Economics Ethics, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
• 2020-present: Member, Executive Committee, Center for Population-Level Bioethics, Rutgers University
• 2021-present: Reviewer Panel, Netherlands Institute for Advance Studies

• 2015-2018 Climate Responsibility of Firms as Political Actors, Basic Research Fund, University of St.Gallen  
• 2019-2023: The (human) right to health (care) and the obligations of states and firms in sub-Saharan Africa’, Ambizione (2019-2023)

Organization of scientific events 

• With Jennifer Mike, American University of Nigeria, Kelsey Berry, Harvard University and Thalia Porteny, Tuffs University, Yaoundé, UCAC, August 15-23, 2021, The Yaoundé Seminar - Theories of Justice: Ethics, Public Policy and Health
• With Kebene Wodajo, Brocher Foundation, Geneva, June 28-29, 2021, Brocher Workshop: Covid-19 and the Human Right to Health: What is really at stake for Africa?
• With Noelia Bueno Gomez, University of Oviedo, Oviedo-Yaoundé, June 1-7, Book Workshop, The Decolonizing of the Thought (Ernest Mbonda) & Roundtable: Covid-19 and comparative analysis between Cameroon and Spain
• With Jean-Christophe Goddard & Alain Ngosso, University of Toulouse, Yaoundé-Toulouse, May 6-7, 2021, Workshop, Journée d’hommage à Fabien Eboussi Boulaga
• UCAC, Yaoundé, December 14-15, 2020, EthicsLab Conference, Rethinking the Cameroonian State from the ethnic Paradigm?
• with Valerie Luyckx, University of Zurich, Brocher Foundation, Geneva, January 29-31, 2020, Brocher Workshop, African perspectives on the Human Right to health   
• with Florian Wettstein, University of St.Gallen & Nien-he Hsieh, Harvard University, EthicsLab’s 1st Anniversary conference, Yaoundé, March 16th – 18th, 2020, The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights in Africa (postponed – October 2020)
• University of St.Gallen, St.Gallen, January 14-15, 2020, IWE-Competence Center for African Research Launch Event, Ethics, Technology & Africa
• UCAC, Yaoundé, March 18-23, 2019, EthicsLab Launch Week, The importance of an Ethics Laboratory for the University and for society 
• With Danielle Zwarthoed, University of Louvain & Tim Meijers, University of Leiden, Yaoundé, August 20 – 26, 2018, The Yaoundé PhD Seminar – Theories of Justice (International and bilingual summer school) on Future Generations and Global Inequalities
• With Juliana Bidadanure, Stanford University, Yaoundé, August 22 – 28, 2016, The Yaoundé PhD Seminar Theories of Justice (International and bilingual summer school) on Utopia and Justice (partly co-sponsored by Stanford Uni. and the Uni. of St. Gallen).
• With Atabongawung Tamo, Rotterdam University, Yaoundé, June 17, 2016, High-Level Roundtable on Business and Human Rights   
• With Cléa Bénoliel; Montréal University, Yaoundé, August 18 – 24, 2014, The Yaoundé PhD Seminar – Theories of Justice (International and bilingual summer school) on Justice and Gender
• Yaoundé, August 26 – 31, 2013, The Yaoundé PhD Seminar – Theories of Justice (International and bilingual summer school) on Justice and Agents of Justice
• Louvain-la-Neuve, June 20-21, 2013, Developing Countries and Duties Towards the Future, International ESF/ARC Workshop, Co-organized with. Prof. Axel Gosseries (Université Catholique de Louvain) & Adrian Paul Ilescu (University of Bucharest)
• Yaoundé, August 20 – 24, 2012, The Yaoundé PhD Seminar – Theories of Justice (summer school) on Global Justice
• With Atabongawung Tamo, Antwerp University, Yaoundé, April 17 – 19, 2012, International Symposium "The social responsibility of employers in the informal sector" (20 speakers from Cameroon, Belgium, Canada)
• With Atabongawung Tamo, Antwerp University,  Yaoundé, March 15 and May 5, 2012, Ateliers camerounais d’éthique économique et sociale , The social responsibility of employers in the informal sector

Research stays   

• 2021-2022: Rutgers University, Center for Population-Level Bioethics & Harvard University, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Visiting Fellow
• 2018-2019: Harvard University, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Berggruen Fellowship
• 2017: University of Colorado-Boulder (department of Philosophy) & Harvard University (Harvard Business School), USA (Feb. 2nd – March 3rd) (with Pr. David Boonin, Pr. Alison Jaggar, Pr. Ajume Wingo & Pr. Nien-hê Hsieh), funded by the Centre for Values and Public Policy (Boulder-Colorado,) & Basic Research Fund (University of St. Gallen)
• 2013-2014: Utrecht, The Netherlands (Nov. 1st – Jan. 15th) Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, Research on: “What Do Firms Owe to Future Generations in terms of Climate Justice?” (with Pr. Marcus Duwell), funded by ESF
• 2013: Vienna, Austria, (Oct.), Institute of Social Ethic, University of Vienna, Research on: Employees’ Freedom of Conscience and Firm Neutrality (with Pr. Gabriel Ingeborg Gerda), funded by Bernheim Foundation
• 2013: Aarhus, Denmark (May – June), Department of Political Science and Government, School of Business and Social Science, University of Aarhus, Research on: Pharmaceutical Multinationals’ Obligations and the Right to Health (with Pr. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen), funded by FAI Project
• 2013: Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia (March), Department of Philosophy, University of Addis-Ababa, Research on: Corporate Social responsibility in Poor Countries (with Pr. Tenna Dewo), funded by Bernheim Foundation
• 2012: Ndjamena, Chad (30 days), Centre d’étude et de formation au développement (CEFOD), Research on: The Chad Fund for Future Generations and Intergenerational Justice, funded by Bernheim Foundation