The Advisory Board provides strategic counsel, assistance and leadership to the Institute in all matters relating to its programs, projects and priorities. The Advisory Board is chaired by the President of the University and meets twice a year.

Lawrence Blum is Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. He is the author of Friendship, Altruism, and Morality; Moral Perception and Particularity; and, most recently, "I'm Not a Racist, But...”: The Moral Quandary of Race. He has worked on racial and multicultural issues in various capacities (including teaching high school) at the K-12 level.

Richard H. Brodhead (ex officio) assumed the Presidency of Duke University in 2004, after a 32-year career at Yale University, where he served eleven years as dean of Yale College. An award-winning teacher and scholar, Brodhead has written or edited more than a dozen books on American literature, including two volumes on African-American author Charles W. Chesnutt.  His published essays and lectures examine subjects ranging from multiculturalism to the role of education in a democratic society and the role of free speech in the university. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, President Brodhead has held Guggenheim, Woodrow Wilson, Danforth and Morse fellowships. He held a Presidential appointment on the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board from 2002 – 2005.

Philip Costanzo (ex officio) is a Clinical, Social, and Developmental Psychologist. He is a Professor of Psychology and has been at Duke University since 1968. He has served in many capacities at Duke including serving as Chair of the Psychology Department, Social and Health Sciences for 10 years. His research and scholarship is primarily involved with understanding parental, peer, and institutional effects on the development of systems of moral and social belief in children and adolescents. In addition, he has published widely on the impact of systems of social belief on both educational and health disparities. Professor Costanzo has published 3 books in social and clinical psychology and more than 80 articles and chapters in leading books and journals. He is the Chair of the National Institute of Drug Abuse Committee on Centers, Associate Director Of Duke’s Center for Child and Family Policy, Chair of the Faculty Council of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Co-Director of Duke’s Transdisciplinary Center for Prevention Research, and a member of the Faculty Board of the Social Science Research Institute. In 2005, Professor Costanzo won the Duke’s prestigious Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award.

Jean Bethke Elshtain is a political philosopher whose work shows the connections between our political and our ethical convictions.  She is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago, a position she has held since 1995.  Prior to that, she taught at the University of Massachusetts and at Vanderbilt University where she was the first woman to hold an endowed professorship in the College of Liberal Arts in the history of that institution.  She has also been a Visiting Professor at Harvard and Yale.  Professor Elshtain holds nine honorary degrees and in 1996, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  She has authored and/or edited twenty books, written some five hundred essays, and is a contributing editor for The New Republic.  She has delivered several hundred guest lectures in universities in the United States and abroad, of which over three dozen have been endowed lectureships.  Professor Elshtain has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; a Scholar in Residence, Bellagio Conference and Study Center, Como Italy; a Guggenhein Fellow; a Fellow of the National Humanities Center; and in 2003 – 2004, she held the Maguire Chair in Ethics at the Library of Congress.  Professor Elshtain also serves on the Scholars Council, The Library of Congress; on the Board of Trustees of the James Madison Program in American Constitutional Ideals at Princeton University; The Board of Trustees of the National Humanities Center; and the Board of the National Endowment for Democracy.  Professor Elshtain was a Phi Beta Kappa Scholar for 1997-1998 and served as Vice President of the American Political Science Association for 1998-1999.  She also was appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Council for Humanities.  She is the recipient of the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for excellence in classroom teaching – the highest award for undergraduate teaching at Vanderbilt University.  In 2002, she received the Goodenow Award of the American Political Science Association, the Association’s highest award for Distinguished Service to the Profession.  In 2005-2006, Professor Elshtain delivered the prestigious Gifford Lecturers at the Universities of Edinburgh. 

Joel L. Fleishman is Professor of Law and Public Policy Studies at Duke University, where he also serves as Director of the Heyman Center for Ethics, Public Policy, and the Professions at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy.  He is a lawyer and has served in many capacities as a university administrator and advisor to public officials and foundations.  He has published extensively on political ethics.

J. Rex Fuqua is President & CEO of The Fuqua Companies, a private investment firm. He also serves as a director for a number of private companies and foundations. Mr. Fuqua is a Trustee of Duke University and a member of the Board of Visitors for Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. He serves on the boards of a number of other educational and community service organizations.

William A. Galston is a Senior Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program.  Prior to January 2006 he was Saul Stern Professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, and founding director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).  From 1993 until 1995 he served as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy.  His other political activities include service as issues director for Walter Mondale’s presidential campaign (1982-1984), as a senior advisor to Albert Gore, Jr.’s run for the Democratic presidential nomination (1988) and again as a senior advisor to Gore’s presidential campaign (1999-2000).  Galston is the author of eight books and more than 100 articles in the fields of political theory, public policy, and American politics.  His most recent books are Liberal Pluralism (Cambridge, 2002), The Practice of Liberal Pluralism (Cambridge, 2004), and Public Matters (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).

Julian J. Harris T”00 is a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania and former Rhodes Scholar. After receiving a master’s degree in Economic and Social History at Balliol College, Oxford University, he joined the World Bank Institute in Washington, D.C., as a Junior Professional Associate in the Leadership Program on AIDS. He has worked on AIDS policy issues in Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, and Senegal and has conducted research on cross-cultural clinical ethics in Tanzania and Guatemala. As an undergraduate at Duke University, he served as chair of the Honor Council and as a student director on the board of the Center for Academic Integrity.

Joseph S. Harvard, III has served as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Durham for 25 years.  He holds graduate degrees from Columbia Theological Seminary, Yale University, and the University of Basel.  He was a Merrill Fellow at Harvard University in 1989.  Rev. Harvard has been president of Durham Congregations-in-Action and serves on the Board of Durham Regional Hospital.  A recipient of Durham’s Keeper of the Dream Award, presented by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Steering Committee and the Elna Spaulding Award for Community Leadership, he has been praised for the efforts he and his congregation have made working for justice and peace within the Durham community, and building bridges among diverse religious and racial ethnic groups.  In October 2004, he received the Freedom Award from the Durham Branch of the NAACP.  He has also served on the Board of Trustees at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta.

Deborah A. Chapin-Horowitz P'01, P'06, P'09 is the Chair of Edslink, LLC, a venture fund providing strategic financial, operations & technology consulting services.  In addition to her work with the fund, she provides legal and business consulting services to certain of EdsLink's investments and to Sucherman Consulting Group, a management consulting and executive search firm that specializes in working with a wide range of media and entertainment companies. Prior to EdsLink, Ms. Chapin-Horowitz was Associate General Counsel for Viacom Inc. and has extensive transactional background in media, technology and entertainment. Prior to Viacom, Mrs. Chapin-Horowitz was an associate at Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent & Lehrer (currently Hogan & Hartson), and served in various positions in the public sector, including Special Assistant to New York City Council President Carol Bellamy and Director of Planning Support for the City Planning Commission in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has an undergraduate degree from Skidmore College, a Masters of Public Affairs from the University of Cincinnati and a J.D. from New York University. 

Edward D. Horowitz P'01, P'06, P'09 is President and CEO of SES Americom, a market-leading satellite operator, and a member of the Executive Committee of its parent company, SES. Prior to SES, Mr. Horowitz founded EdsLink LLC a venture fund providing strategic financial, operations, and technology consulting services to financial services and cable industry. Prior to forming EdsLink LLC, Mr. Horowitz was Executive Vice President for Advanced Development of Citigroup and Founder, Chairman and CEO of e-Citi. In addition, he served as a member of the Management and Investment Committees of Citigroup. Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Horowitz was Senior Vice President, Viacom Inc., and a member of the Viacom Executive Committee and, prior to Viacom, Mr. Horowitz held various senior management positions at Home Box Office (HBO), a subsidiary of Time Warner and was a founder of Suburban Cable.  Mr. Horowitz holds a B.S. in Physics from the City College of New York and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. Mr. Horowitz also serves on advisory boards and as a Director of a number of companies, including EaglePicher, The Tennis Channel, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, the New York Hall of Science and the March of Dimes.

Kimberly Jenkins T’76, G’80, P’08 serves as a part-time faculty member and mentor to students in the Masters in Engineering Management Program in the Pratt School of Engineering.  She works with Duke students, faculty and staff interested in technology commercialization.  Her teaching endeavors focus primarily on issues related to increasing the number of women and minorities in commercial technology innovation and entrepreneurial careers. She is also working with the Fuqua School of Business on the development of a program for women in leadership.  Jenkins, a Duke graduate (B.S. 1976, Ph.D. 1980), is the former president of the Internet Policy Institute, an independent, nonprofit research and educational institute that examines global Internet policy issues. She was also the founder, chairman and president of Highway 1, a nonprofit corporation focused on helping the federal government operate more effectively through the use of information technologies.  During her career in management Jenkins founded Microsoft's Education Division, ran market development at NeXT, and worked as a technical analyst for Control Data Corporation. She has also served as a consultant to companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Sun, Oracle and Cisco.  Dr. Jenkins currently serves on the Duke University Board of Trustees, where she chairs the Committee for Institutional Advancement.  She is also a member of the Duke University Health Systems Board, Vice Chair of the Kenan Institute for Ethics Board, and an advisory board member of Fuqua’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

William D. (Bill) Johnson T’78 is chairman, chief executive officer (CEO) and president of Progress Energy, Inc. He became chairman and CEO on October 12, 2007. He served as president and chief operating officer from January 2005 until October 2007. Johnson has been with Progress Energy (previously CP&L) in a number of roles since 1992, including group president for Energy Delivery, president and chief executive officer for Progress Energy Service Company, and general counsel and secretary for Progress Energy, Inc. Before joining Progress Energy, Johnson was a partner with the Raleigh office of Hunton & Williams, where he specialized in the representation of utilities. He previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable J. Dickson Phillips Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Mr. Johnson serves in a number of volunteer and leadership roles with local and professional agencies. He graduated from Duke University summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in history, and received a law degree with high honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982.

James A. (Jim) Joseph was President Clinton’s Ambassador to South Africa during the presidency of Nelson Mandela and serves presently as Professor of the Practice and Leader in Residence at the Sanford Institute’s Hart Leadership Program at Duke University. The incorporating chair of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National Service under President Clinton, he serves presently as Chair of the Faculty Board that over sees the Center for Civic Engagement (Project Engage) at Duke. Ambassador Joseph is also founder and Executive Director of the United States – Southern Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values at Duke and the University of Cape Town. A graduate of Southern University and Yale, he has served four US Presidents, including as Under Secretary of the Interior in the Carter Administration. He has also been President of the Council on Foundations, an organization of more than 2,000 foundations and corporate giving programs, a senior officer at Cummins Engine Company and author of several books on philanthropy and civil society. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation established by the Governor of Louisiana. His many board assignments have included the Brookings Institution, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Children’s Defense Fund, Pitzer College, the Leadership Center at Morehouse College and the School Of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.

J. Matthew Mackowski T'76 is Chairman and Managing Director of Telegraph Hill Partners, a San Francisco life science and medical technology private equity firm.  He has been a venture capital investor since 1980.

John G. Medlin, Jr. is Chairman Emeritus and former chief executive officer of Wachovia Corporation. He serves on many corporate and non-profit boards, including The Duke Endowment, the National Humanities Center, the Research Triangle Foundation, and Wake Forest University; he is also a member of the State Judicial Council. Mr. Medlin received the Distinguished Citizenship Award of North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry in 1998 and was inducted into the North Carolina Business Hall of Fame in 1995. Financial World magazine selected him as the best bank chief executive officer in the nation for 1993 and as the top bank chief executive officer in the South for the decade of the 1980s.

Dennis Meyer P’87, P’90, P’93, P’98, P’08 is senior counsel and former Chair of the Executive Committee with the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie based in Washington, DC. Mr. Meyer holds a J.D. and LL.M. from Georgetown University and received the Paul R. Dean Distinguished Graduate Award from the Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Meyer also received the Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Dayton, his undergraduate alma mater. Mr. Meyer serves on the Board of the University of Dayton, and of the Georgetown University Law Center, as well as the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University.

Jordan Pantzer T’96 is Managing Director of Pantzer Properties, Inc., a privately owned, fully integrated, owner / operator of real estate investment properties along the east coast of the United States. Over his career, Jordan has been involved in over 150 global and domestic real estate transactions including acquisitions, sales and financings in both the public and private arena. Between 1996 and 2003, Jordan worked as an investment banker, lender and private equity investor in the real estate groups of Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse First Boston, Lazard and Starwood Capital Group. He is series 7 and 63 licensed by the NASD. Jordan received his BA in Political Science and Certificate in Markets and Management from Duke University in 1996. Jordan is a member of the New York Weill Cornell Council at New York Presbyterian Hospital.     

Gary Pavela Gary Pavela teaches in the honors program at the University of Maryland and writes law and policy newsletters to which over 1,000 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada subscribe. He was a law clerk to Judge Alfred P. Murrah of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, a faculty member for the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C (the training arm of the United States Courts), and a staff attorney for the State University of New York, Central Administration. Identified by the New York Times as an "authority on academic ethics," Gary Pavela has been a consultant on law and policy issues at many leading universities, including Stanford University, the University of Michigan, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rutgers University, Georgetown University, The United States Naval Academy, Lehigh University, Brown University, Colgate University, Vassar College, Bryn Mawr College, and Smith College, among many others. He spoke to Virginia Tech faculty and staff at the July 2007 "Symposium for Managing At-risk Students" (sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education) and was a consultant to the Governor's Task Force on Campus Safety for the state of Wisconsin (2007). He is the author of Questions and Answers on College Student Suicide: A Law and Policy Perspective (College Administration Publications, 2006). In 2002 Gary was designated a "Fellow" of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Fellows of the Association are identified as individuals who have "brought distinction to higher education and to the practice of law on behalf of colleges and universities across the nation." In 2005 he received the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators' "Outstanding Contribution to Literature and Research" award. In 2006 he was designated the University of Maryland "Outstanding Faculty Educator" by the Maryland Parents' Association.

Noah Pickus (ex officio) is the Nannerl O. Keohane Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University where he teaches in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and the Fuqua School of Business.  During his tenure at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Pickus has developed and expanded the Institute’s business and organizational ethics program, launched a university-wide research initiative on “Changing Institutional Cultures” and directed the graduate colloquium in ethics. In fall 2005, he led a collaborative process to develop the Institute’s new strategic plan. The author of True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism (2005), Pickus writes extensively on issues of immigration, citizenship, and national identity and has advised the Department of Homeland Security, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Smith-Richardson Foundation, and other public and private organizations. Prior to joining the Kenan Institute, he was the founding director for the Institute for Emerging Issues at North Carolina State University, and before that a faculty member in public policy and political science at Duke and at Middlebury College. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and has held fellowships from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, the A.W. Mellon Foundation, and the H.B. Earhart Foundation.

Elizabeth (Betty) Quick WC'70, P'09 is an estate attorney at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC and in April 2006 was appointed the managing member of the firm's Winston Salem office (she was the firm's first female partner 25 years ago and is the first female attorney to manage the office).  She attended Duke University (AB, History, 1970) and the UNC Law School (JD, 1974 ).  She is past president of the North Carolina Bar Association and served on the Board of Law Examiners.  She currently serves on the boards of The Cannon Foundation, UNC School of Government, Senior Services, Wake Forest University Health Sciences , and Reynolda House. She is past Chair of the Winston Salem Foundation and a long-standing advocate of professional standards, legal ethics education, and civic education.

William (Bill) Raspberry is a nationally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post and the Knight Professor of the Practice of Communications and Journalism at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University.  He received the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for his commentaries on crime, AIDS, the Nation of Islam and violent rap lyrics, and is the author of Looking Backward at Us.  Professor Raspberry gave the inaugural Kenan Distinguished Lecture in 1996.

Nancy Rich WC’69, P’02, P’05 is program coordinator for the Learned Clergy Initiative at Duke Divinity School, a five year grant given by the Lilly Foundation, which has continued to operate after the grant through self funding. A Duke alumna, Ms. Rich holds an M.A. in Religion and Biblical Studies from Yale and an M.Ed. from Temple. She serves as chairperson of the Advisory Board for the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School and mentors students in "Spiritual Formation," a required class for all first-year divinity students.

Wyndham Robertson serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including those of Hollins University, the Stewards Fund, and the Blanche and Julian Robertson Family Foundation. She was formerly a director of Capital Cities/ABC, Wachovia, and Media General.  She was on the staff of FORTUNE magazine for 24 years, successively as researcher, writer, editor, and assistant managing editor.  From 1986 to 1996, Ms. Robertson was vice president for communications at the University of North Carolina.

Mary D.B.T. Semans WC’39 has served on the Durham City Council and in leadership positions in dozens of civic organizations.  She currently serves on a number of boards, including those of The Duke Endowment, the North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.  Mrs. Semans and her late husband Dr. James H. Semans were awarded the 1997 North Carolina Philanthropy Award.

Dr. Jonathan Silver, T’75, P’04, P’06 of New York is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. After graduating from Duke University, he attended Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed his training in psychiatry at New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University. He then was in a research fellowship sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, New York State Psychiatric Institute, and Creedmoor Psychiatric Center focusing on the treatment of chronic aggressive behavior with beta-blockers. Dr. Silver is a Fellow and past- President of the American Neuropsychiatric Association. He has held past positions as Director of Neuropsychiatry at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and Assistant Chair of Clinical Services and Research and Director of Ambulatory Services in the Department of Psychiatry at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. He has authored over 35 papers and 45 chapters, focusing on the neuropsychiatric problems subsequent to traumatic brain injury and the pharmacologic treatment of those problems. He has edited three books, including “Neuropsychiatry of Traumatic Brain Injury,” the first comprehensive volume that reviews this subject, and the second expanded edition of this book, “Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury” (2005). He has been listed in “Best Doctors in America” since 1993 for the area of neuropsychiatry.

Ms. Michelle Marie Swenson T'77 of Atherton, CA is a management consultant to early stage firms and also works with non-profit organizations focused on helping women become economically self-sufficient.  She is a former senior vice president and chief administrative officer for Charles Schwab Institutional.  During her tenure at Schwab beginning in1984, Ms. Swenson held positions in asset management and research, strategic planning, marketing, online brokerage and technology.   She graduated summa cum laude from Duke University with a bachelor's degree in economics and earned her master's in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley.  Former Duke boards and committees include the Council on Women's Studies.

Jeanne Tannenbaum G’73, a graduate of Duke University’s Master of Hospital Administration program, has over the years held senior positions at hospitals in Louisiana, Virginia, South Carolina, Maryland, and Massachusetts. She currently serves on the board of directors of the National Conference for Community and Justice and of the Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation, and is an active supporter of humanitarian, educational, and arts activities in Greensboro and across North Carolina.

Richard Weissbourd of Boston, MA is Lecturer on Education at the Graduate School of Education and at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His work focuses on children's social and ethical development, on vulnerability and resilience in childhood and on effective schools and services for children. He has advised on the state and federal level on family policy and has developed several school and community interventions, primarily in Boston and Cambridge. He is a founder of ReadBoston and of WriteBoston, city-wide initiatives, led by Mayor Menino, intended to greatly improve children's reading and writing abilities. He is also a founder of a new school in Dorchester, the Lee Academy, that begins with children at age three. He has written for numerous scholarly and popular publications, and is the author of The Vulnerable Child, (Addison-Wesley, 1996). He is currently working on a book on children's moral development (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).  He earned his B.A. with honors in Psychology from Stanford University and his Doctorate in Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University.