Valentina Gentile is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at Luiss Guido Carli University. She previously served as Assistant Professor at Luiss (2019–2024) and was Visiting Professor at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) from 2016 to 2019. She has also held research positions at the University of Antwerp, University College London, and the University of Utrecht as a Marie Curie Fellow.
She is currently Editor of FQP / Philosophy and Public Issues and previously served as Deputy Director of the Centre for Ethics and Global Politics (CEGP) and Deputy Coordinator of the PhD programme in Politics: Theory, Science and History at Luiss. She has taught at several Italian and European universities, including Rome, Naples, Bari, Milan, and Antwerp.
She specialises in normative political philosophy, liberal theory, and especially the work of John Rawls. Her research explores core Rawlsian themes such as moral stability, pluralism, reciprocity, toleration, and civility, and extends this framework to transitional justice, intergenerational justice, and the role of religion in democratic societies. She is also interested in the intersections between ethics and business.
Her work has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals, including International Theory, Journal of Social Philosophy, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Global Policy Journal, and Philosophia. She is the author of Freedom with Religions (Routledge, 2026), Libertà con le Religioni (Giappichelli, 2024), and From Identity-Conflicts to Civil Society (Luiss University Press, 2013), and co-editor of Rawls and Religion (Columbia University Press, 2015), Spaces of Tolerance (Routledge, 2020), and The Ethics of ESG (Cambridge University Press, 2026).