Denis Goulet

Who was Denis Goulet?

Denis Goulet was a human development theorist and a founder of work on development ethics as an independent field of study. Goulet's definition of Development Ethics is that it is a field that examines the ethical and value questions related to development theory, planning, and practice.

Goulet was a professor emeritus in the Department of Economics and Policy Studies at University of Notre Dame. He had also served as a faculty fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

He took his undergraduate and masters degrees in Philosophy from St. Paul’s College, he took a master’s degree in Social Planning from IRFED in Paris; and took his PhD in Political Science from the University of São Paulo, Brazil.