The Advisory Board provides advice, assistance, and leadership to the Kenan Institute for Ethics in all matters relating to its programs, projects, and priorities. The Board consists of between fifteen and twenty-four distinguished individuals, including business leaders, academics, journalists, and philanthropists. The Advisory Board is chaired by the President of Duke University and meets on campus in April and November each year.

Christine Bader, Advisor to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for business & human rights; formerly Manager, Policy Development, BP plc.

Lawrence Blum, (Emeritus), Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.

Richard H. Brodhead (Board Chair), President of Duke University.

William Cohan T’81, author of House of Cards and The Last Tycoon; former managing director of JP Morgan Chase,former director at Merrill Lynch.

Philip Costanzo, Professor of Psychology at Duke University and Chair of the Kenan Institute for Ethics Faculty Council.

C. Allen Foster P’11, Lawyer/Arbitrator with Greenberg Traurig in Washington, DC.

Joel L. Fleishman, (Emeritus), Professor of Law and Public Policy Studies and Director of the Heyman Center for Ethics, Public Policy, and the Professions at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

J. Rex Fuqua, President & CEO of The Fuqua Companies, a private investment firm.

William A. Galston, Senior Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program.

Julian J. Harris T’00, medical student at the University of Pennsylvania and former Rhodes Scholar.

Joseph S. Harvard, III, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Durham.

Alice B. Hicks WC’69, P’07, Executive VP at Iridian Asset Management, LLC

Deborah A. Chapin-Horowitz P’01, P’06, P’09, Chair of Edslink, LLC, a venture fund providing strategic financial, operations & technology consulting services.

Edward D. Horowitz P’01, P’06, P’09, Chair of EdsLink, LLC, and a Director of Global Entertainment & Media Holdings Corporation.

James A. Joseph, Professor of the Practice and Leader in Residence at the Sanford School of Public Policy’s Hart Leadership Program at Duke University and former Ambassador to South Africa during the presidency of Nelson Mandela.

J. Matthew Mackowski T’76 (Board Vice Chair), Chairman and Managing Director of Telegraph Hill Partners, a San Francisco life science and medical technology private equity firm.

John G. Medlin, Jr. (Emeritus), Chairman Emeritus and former chief executive officer of Wachovia Corporation.

Dennis Meyer P’87, P’90, P’93, P’98, P’08, senior counsel and former Executive Committee Chairman of the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie.

Jordan Pantzer T’96, 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.

Gary Pavela teaches in the honors program at the University of Maryland.

Noah Pickus, Nannerl O. Keohane Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University where he teaches in the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Fuqua School of Business.

Elizabeth (Betty) Quick WC’70, P’09, estate attorney at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC.

William Raspberry (Emeritus), former nationally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post and the Knight Professor of the Practice of Communications and Journalism at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

Wyndham Robertson, (Emerita), former director of Capital Cities/ABC, Wachovia, and Media General. From 1986 to 1996, Ms. Robertson was vice president for communications at the University of North Carolina.

Mary D.B.T. Semans WC’39 (Emerita), philanthropist and former Durham City Council member who serves on a number of boards, including those of The Duke Endowment and the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Jonathan Silver, T’75, P’04, P’06, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine.

Jimmy Soni T’07, winner of the George Mitchell Scholarship and currently completing a Masters in Politics at the University College Cork.

Michelle Marie Swenson T’77, management consultant to early stage firms who 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.

Jeanne Tannenbaum G’73, active supporter of humanitarian, educational, and arts activities in Greensboro and across North Carolina.

Richard Weissbourd, Lecturer on Education at the Graduate School of Education and at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.