Carissa Véliz

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]

Carissa Véliz
Born	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

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

• Véliz, Carissa (2021). Privacy is power: why and how you should take back control of your data. London: Corgi Books. p. 320. ISBN 9780552177719.^[7]