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.

Stacey Abrams, State Representative for the 84th House District of the Georgia General Assembly

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

Stephen Bear 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 working for the Mayor of Washington DC, Adrian Fenty.

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

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

Alisa Worth T’01, Nevada Senate Democrat’s Executive Director

Emeriti Members:

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

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

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