He specialises in contemporary political theory and the history of political thought. He studied at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Edinburgh and London School of Economics before obtaining a DPhil degree in Political Theory at the University of Oxford (2011). His research interests include early modern political thought, in particular the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, and contemporary political theory, and more recently, international taxation in relation to global justice. He is currently visiting McGill's Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism as an O'Brien Fellow in Residence (Sept-Dec 2017).