Beate Roessler

Beate Roessler (born 1958 in Heidelberg) is a German philosopher and researcher who is a Professor of Ethics at the University of Amsterdam.

Roessler studied philosophy in several German and English cities, among them London, Oxford, and Berlin.

Her Ph.D. was completed in 1988 at the Free University of Berlin.

Roessler’s habilitation developed a theory of the value of privacy, and was finalized in 2001 at the University of Bremen.

Roessler was the Socrates Professor of the Foundations of Humanism at Leiden University between 2003 and 2010.

Roessler has held various shorter-term research and teaching positions; she was a fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study in 2003 and 2004.

Roessler was a visiting scholar at Macquarie University, Sydney, the Law School at the University of Melbourne, and at New York University.

In 2023, she will be teaching as a Bok Fellow at the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Beate Roessler is a founding member of the Amsterdam Platform for Privacy Research and Platform for the Ethics and Politics of Technology.

Roessler is a co-editor of the European Journal of Philosophy and the Privacy Studies Journal.

She is part of the project Political Microtargeting: Safeguarding Public Values and the consortium of the gravitation program Public Values in the Algorithmic Society.

Roessler's board memberships also include the editorial board of the book series Essex Studies in Contemporary Critical Theory (Rowman and Littlefield) and the International Advisory Board of the Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt/Germany.

Roessler is a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a member of the Academia Europaea and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.