Advisory Board

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.

CURRENT MEMBERS
Christine Bader, nonresident Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics; former advisor to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for business and human rights

Stephen Bear (Board Vice Chair) T’73, executive coach and business advisor, adjunct faculty member at Iona College, and former senior vice-president of human resources at Bristol-Myers Squibb

Richard H. Brodhead (Board Chair, ex officio), president of Duke University

Susan Nance Callaway T’84, G’93, P’15, previously worked at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, interests include public policy, student life, philosophy, sociology, and ethics

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

C. Allen Foster P’11, lawyer/arbitrator with Greenberg Traurig in Washington, DC

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

Alice B. Hicks WC’69, P’07, executive vice president 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 and technology consulting services

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

Daniel Katz, T’80, P’14, partner and senior portfolio manager at Apex Capital,LLC

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

Noah Pickus (ex officio), 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

Jonathan Silver, T’75, P’04, P’06, clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine

Jimmy Soni T’07, Managing Editor of the Huffington Post

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; 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

David Wong (ex officio), Susan Fox Beischer & George D. Beischer Professor of Philosophy

Alisa Worth T’01, Nevada Senate Democrats executive director

EMERITI
Lawrence Blum, (Emeritus), professor of philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts-Boston

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

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

Julian J. Harris T’00 , (Emeritus), Medicaid program director for the State of Massachusetts and former Rhodes Scholar

J. Matthew Mackowski T’76, (Emeritus), chairman and managing director of Telegraph Hill Partners, a San Francisco life science and medical technology private equity firm

Wyndham Robertson, (Emerita), former director of Capital Cities/ABC, Wachovia, and Media General; former vice president for communications at the University of North Carolina