Hilary Greaves (born 29 September 1978) is a British philosopher and a professor at the University of Oxford. From 2017 to 2022, she served as the director of the Global Priorities Institute.
Greaves earned a BA in philosophy and physics from Oxford and a PhD in philosophy from Rutgers. Her doctoral thesis, completed under the supervision of Frank Arntzenius, was "Spacetime symmetries and the CPT theorem".[1] Prior to her current professorship, she held appointments at Merton and Somerville Colleges.
Greaves’ current work is on issues related to global priorities research. Her research interests include moral philosophy (including foundational issues in consequentialism, interpersonal aggregation, population ethics, and moral uncertainty), formal epistemology, and the philosophy of physics.