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Mathieu Thierry Ngosso

Mathieu Thierry Ngosso

Mathieu Thierry Ngosso

PhD

Managing Director IWE-HSG Africa Center

IWE-HSG
Büro 48-320
Blumenbergplatz 9
9000 St. Gallen
Tel: +41 71 224 3096
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Publications

Publications on Research Platform Alexandria

Main Focuses

Global Justice: Climate change, Human Rights, Migration

Comparative Philosophy: Western/African

Business Ethics

Health Ethics

Fields of research

Global Justice: Climate change, Human Rights, Migration

Business Ethics

Health Ethics

Further fields of research

Comparative Philosophy: Western/African

Education
  • 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 
Professional Career
  • 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 
Teaching Activities
  • 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  
Projects
  • 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)
Affiliations
  • 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: Referee for Medical Humanities (Journal)
Talks
  • 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  

Additional Information

Organization of scientific events 

  • 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   

  • 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   
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