Zofia Stemplowska

Zofia Stemplowska is a Polish-British Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford's Department of Politics and International Relations. She is an Asa Briggs Fellow at Worcester College, and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Social Justice. Further, she is an editor for the journal Philosophy and Public Affairs. Stemplowska was Associate Professor of Political Theory at Warwick University until 2012. Ideal theory aims at providing standards for justice, toward which a society can strive; Stemplowska argues that this form of political theory is important alongside other forms of theory, even though it cannot be applied directly in the world as it is.

Stemplowska's public writing has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian, and has been praised by the BBC.