He earned his PhD in philosophy at UC-Berkeley in 2012, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford before moving to Penn. He works in moral and political philosophy, including environmental and business ethics. He has published articles on moral demandingness, obligations of justice, climate ethics, and effective altruism. His work has appeared in journals such as Mind, Philosophical Studies, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Utilitas, Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Social Theory and Practice. Much of his current work focuses on obligations of justice in the economic domain, including the obligations of corporations. Brian Berkey is a Berggruen Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.