Albert Didriksen is a Doctoral Candidate in political theory at Central European University. He holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Oslo, where his thesis on utilitarian distributive justice earned the highest grade. He also earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Oslo and a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy.
Albert’s doctoral research examines how to set priorities in healthcare. His dissertation on interpersonal moral aggregation defends an aggregative approach to allocating scarce resources that counts the well-being of everyone affected by healthcare decisions. He challenges non-aggregative theories and studies how emerging technologies are reshaping health ethics and policymaking.
Said simply, he works on how to decide who should get care when healthcare resources are limited.
He is currently a visiting researcher at Rutgers University’s Institute for Health. In 2025, he was a Graduate Research Trainee at McGill University. Previously, he taught political philosophy, research design, and methods at the University of Oslo and worked as a research assistant at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences.
Beyond academia, Albert has led animal welfare initiatives at the Centre for Long-term Policy. He co-wrote a policy note on the welfare crisis in Norwegian fish farming that drew national attention, and another report on genetic technologies for better fish welfare. Fluent in Norwegian, Hungarian, and English, he aims to connect rigorous scholarship with practical policy to address urgent ethical questions in healthcare and beyond.