On 1 January 2011, Dr B.P. de Bruin was appointed professor of Financial Ethics at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen. This is a new chair at the Faculty, answering a wide social need for future economists and business administrators to be schooled in ethics.
‘The economic crisis has demonstrated the need for Financial Ethics,’ says De Bruin. ‘You only have to think of issues to do with bonuses, government support for banks, or the bankers’ oath. However, Financial Ethics is barely out of the starting blocks as an academic discipline. That means that there are a lot of possibilities, both for teaching and for new research projects.’ The professor makes use of methodologies from disciplines such as philosophical ethics, mathematical game theory and logic for his research into ethics in the financial sector.
Curriculum Vitae
Boudewijn de Bruin (Almelo, 1974) studied composition at the conservatory in Enschede for a year, then mathematics and philosophy at Amsterdam, Berkeley and Harvard. He was awarded a PhD by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (Amsterdam) for a thesis on game theory and epistemic logic, which was also awarded a prize by Praemium Erasmianum, a cultural institution active in the fields of humanities, social sciences and the arts. De Bruin joined the University of Groningen in 2005.
