Carissa Véliz

In this article, the surname is Véliz.

Carissa Véliz
Born	Carissa Véliz Mexico
Nationality	Mexican Spanish
Occupation	philosopher
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Salamanca (BA) Graduate Center, CUNY (MA) University of Oxford (PhD)
Thesis	On Privacy
Doctoral advisor	Roger Crisp Cécile Fabre
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy
Sub-discipline	Philosophy, AI Ethics, applied philosophy, ethics, moral philosophy, political philosophy and practical ethics.
Institutions	University of Oxford

Carissa Véliz [1][2][3] is a Mexican, Spanish, and British philosopher. She is an associate professor of philosophy and ethics at the University of Oxford (Institute for Ethics in AI, Faculty of Philosophy).[4]

Life and career

Carissa Véliz studied a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy at the University of Salamanca.[5] Later she studied a master of arts (MA) in Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. She got a doctorate (PhD) in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, with the doctoral thesis "On Privacy", which concerns the ethics and political philosophy of privacy.

She is an Associate Professor of philosophy and ethics at the University of Oxford (Institute for Ethics in AI, Faculty of Philosophy), and a Fellow at Hertford College.[4][6] Her work and area of specialisation is ethics of artificial intelligence (AI Ethics), applied philosophy, ethics, moral philosophy, political philosophy and practical ethics.[4]

In 2020 she published her first book, "Privacy Is Power", about the ethics and political philosophy surrounding privacy.[7] It became an Economist Book of the Year [8]

Work

• Privacy is Power, 2020.[7]

References

1. "Dos estudiantes de la Universidad de Salamanca han sido galardonados con la beca Universia-Fernando Alonso 2009 de Movilidad Internacional :Actualidad Universitaria" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2022-01-03. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
2. "Bristish Spanish Society. Scholarships programme 2008-2018. November 2018" (PDF).
3. "Escala de Investigadores Científicos de los Organismos Públicos de Investigación. Acceso libre. 2018-2019. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Gobierno de España" (PDF).
4. "Carissa Véliz". www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
5. "Carissa Véliz, antigua alumna de filosofía de la USAL, en la lista 'The Economist'". Alumni - Universidad de Salamanca. (in European Spanish). 2021-09-21. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
6. "Artículos escritos por Carissa Véliz". El País (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-06.
7. Véliz, Carissa (July 2021). Privacy is Power.
8. "Privacy is Power chosen as one of the best books of the year by The Economist". www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-09-17.