L.M. (Lisa) Herzog, Prof

Lisa Herzog works at the intersection of political philosophy and economic thought. She has held her position at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen since 2019. Between 2021 and 2025, she was the Directer of the Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and since January 2023, she is Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy.

She holds a master (Diplom) in economics from LMU Munich, and an M.St. in Philosophy and D.Phil. in Political Theory from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She has worked at, or visited, the universities of St. Gallen (CH), Leuven (BE), Frankfurt/Main (D), Utrecht (NL), and Stanford (US), and has held fellowships of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study. She was a member of the Young Academy Groningen and the Global Young Academy, where she lead the SCISO project. She is currently a member of De Jonge Academy, since 2023 of the Royal Holland Academy of the Sciences and Humanities and since 2025 of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Herzog has published on the philosophical dimensions of markets (both historical and systemical), liberalism and social justice, ethics in organizations and the future of work. The current focus of her work are workplace democracy, professional ethics, and the role of knowledge in democracies. She is a co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal  Review of Social Economy.  Her forthcoming monograph is entitled  Citizen Knowledge. Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy . 

For a CV click here: CV Lisa Herzog (updated September 2025).