Rich Eva

Rich Eva is the Director of Character Forward in the Pratt School of Engineering and a Research Fellow in the Kenan Institute for Ethics. Eva earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Baylor University and his A.B., cum laude, from Princeton University. He publishes on topics in ethics, pedagogy, and political philosophy, and he teaches courses on technology ethics and politics.

Character Forward is an ethics initiative, supported by The Purpose Project at Duke, focused on making character essential to engineering excellence at Duke and beyond. To that end, Eva works with faculty, staff, and students to equip them to address ethics and character formation in their classrooms and lives. The goal is to produce engineering leaders of character who leverage technology for the good of humanity.

Eva’s interest in leadership and character was sparked by his experience as a Division I athlete at Princeton, as well as his work as an assistant vice president at Barclays Bank in New York City, where he helped organize pro bono service initiatives before returning to academia to investigate questions in applied ethics.