Speaker Series and Other Events

The Confucius Institute and The Center For Global Business Programs present

"The Future of the Chinese Financial Markets"
with Dr. Michael A. Santoro, author of China 2020 and Wall Street Values: Business Ethics and the Global Financial Crisis
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
3:00 p.m.
Student Union
1 Pace Plaza, NYC

  [Michael Santoro]
Michael A. Santoro is a world renowned business ethics teacher, scholar, and consultant. He is a Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School. Among his areas of expertise are business ethics on Wall Street, pharmaceutical industry ethics, and corporate social responsibility in China. He is the author of China 2020: How Western Business Can - and Should - Influence Social and Political Change, and his latest book (co-written with Ronald J. Strauss) is Wall Street Values: Business Ethics and the Global Financial Crisis.

Dr. Santoro has served as a consultant to the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis, helping in that capacity to design an industry-wide corporate integrity program for companies supplying long lasting anti-malaria bednets. He also worked with Arusha-based A to Z Corporation to design, adopt and implement one of the first business ethics code of conduct in Tanzania. His expert testimony in the Vioxx litigation became the basis for court-ordered corporate governance reforms adopted by Merck.

He has been a visiting Professor at the University of Zurich and an Adjunct Lecturer and a Teaching Fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where he taught ethics and economics courses. As a Research Associate at Harvard Business School, he wrote or co-authored nearly thirty case studies and teaching notes on ethical and legal topics, including a leading case on the introduction of intellectual property into the WTO. He was an invited speaker at the American Bar Association Conference on Professionalism in the 21st Century. He was the recipient of research grant from the Aspen Institute’s Initiative for Social Innovation through Business and he has also served as a GE Teaching Fellow at Rutgers Business School.

He serves on the Editorial Board of Business Ethics Quarterly and the Journal of Human Rights, and he is a member of the Board of Directors of the NASBA Center for the Public Trust.

Professor Santoro testified before the United States Senate Finance Committee on the human rights implications of China’s entry into the World Trade Organization. He is a frequent featured speaker on human rights and business ethics at numerous venues, including Cornell, Columbia, Oberlin, Princeton, Redlands, Santa Clara, and Tufts, as well as at the Brookings Institution, the World Affairs Council, the Economic Strategy Institute, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Asia Society.

For more information, visit www.michaelasantoro.com.

[Michael Santoro]

[Michael Santoro]