John Broome took a PhD in Economics from MIT, followed by an MA in Philosophy from Bedford College, University of London. He was a lecturer in Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London, then a Reader and later Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol. He became a Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews in 1996, and then White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, from 2000 to 2014. He is a regular visitor at the Australian National University, where he is an Honorary Professor.