European Research Council Seventh Framework Programme research grant “Performance-based Innovation Rewards” (2014–19)
Winner of The American Philosophical Association’s 2013 Gregory Kavka Prize in political philosophy: “Are We Violating the Human Rights of the Worlds Poor?”
Honorary doctorate in law from the University of Bucharest, Romania, May 2012 Video
Honorary doctorate in law from the University of Connecticut, May 2012
Honorary doctorate in social sciences from the University of Turku, Finland, May 2011
Australian Research Council Linkage Grant for the project “Assessing Development: Designing Better Indices of Poverty and Gender Equity” (2009–13)
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant for the project “The Responsibilities of the Affluent to Address Global Poverty” (2009–12)
European Commission Seventh Framework Grant (2008–11) “Pharma Innovation Innova–P2,” an international collaboration of seven partner institutions toward fully developing and specifying the Health Impact Fund as a complement to the patent system for pharmaceuticals
Core Group Member in the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (Oslo), awarded Centre of Excellence status by the Norwegian government in 2007 and renewed for a second 5-year period
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (2006–08) and BUPA Foundation Research Funding (2007–10) for the project “Just Rules for Incentivising Pharmaceutical Research and Disseminating its Benefits”
Visiting Fellowship, All Souls College and Oxford Centre for Ethics and Philosophy of Law, Oxford: 2002–03
Top ten philosophy articles published in 2000 (The Philosopher’s Annual, Volume 23): “On the Site of Distributive Justice: Reflections on Cohen and Murphy”
Grants by Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs (New York) and Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (Bielefeld) for a conference on global justice, June 2000
Member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, with a supplementary grant from the Global Security and Sustainability Program of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: 1999–2000
Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science (since 1996)
Fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo: 1–6/1996
Alexander Hamilton Medal from the Columbia University Alumni Association: 11/1994
L.S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values: 1993–94
Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Philosophy Department on an NEH Fellowship for University Teachers: 1990–91
Member of the Senior Common Room, Wolfson College, Oxford, on a Columbia University Chamberlain Fellowship: 7–12/1987
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the University of Maryland Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy: 1986–87