Margo Trappenburg studied political science at Leiden University. She defended her thesis, about debates on ethical issues in the Netherlands, in 1993. Since 2000 Trappenburg is associate professor at the Utrecht University School of Governance. Since 2014 she has an endowed chair in Social work at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht. From 2008-2013 she held another special professorship at the University of Amsterdam, where she studied recent developments in the welfare state. From 2004-2008 she held a special professorship at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, on the role of patients in health care politics. Her research interests include: patient organizations, patient empowerment, euthanasia, the development of (medical) professional ethics, welfare state policy and contemporary political philosophy.

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