Profil

Michele Bocchiola is Senior Researcher and Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Geneva. He previously held research appointments at the University of Pavia, LUISS University in Rome, and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where he also taught ethics and political philosophy. His research lies at the intersection of political philosophy and public ethics, with a particular focus on the relationship between personal privacy and data ownership, the ethics of anti-corruption, and normative theories of institutional accountability and trustworthiness.

He is the co-author, with Emanuela Ceva, of Is Whistleblowing a Duty? (Polity, 2018), and his work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Political Philosophy, Harvard Review of Philosophy, and Analyse & Kritik. His current research—supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation—examines the idea of ‘dirty hands’ as a heuristic tool for diagnosing institutional dysfunction and guiding public action under non-ideal conditions.

Area of interest

• Political philosophy
• Ethics