Thomas Donaldson is the Mark O. Winkelman Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Director of the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research. His books include: Ties that Bind: A Social Contract Approach to Business Ethics (Harvard University Business School Press, 1999), with Thomas Dunfee, and Ethics in International Business (Oxford University Press, 1989). He was Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review from 2002-2007. He was Chairman of the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management, 2007-2008, and a founding member and past president of the Society for Business Ethics

William S. Laufer is Julian Aresty Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Sociology, and Criminology at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  He is former Director, Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center of Business Ethics Research.  He continues to work in collaboration with such multilateral institutions and non-governmental organizations as the World Bank, United Nations, and the Center for Political Accountability.  

Dr. Laufer’s research has been published in law reviews and a wide range of business ethics, criminology, legal and psychology journals.  He is author or editor of numerous books, including the HANDBOOK OF PSYCHOLOGY AND LAW; PERSONAILITY THEORY, MORAL DEVELOPMENT AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; AND CRIME, VALUES AND RELIGION. His most recent book, CORPORATE BODIES AND GUILTY MINDS: THE FAILURE OF CORPORATE CRIMINAL LIABILITY, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2006. He is Series Editor of Advances in Criminological Theory with Freda Adler.  Dr. Laufer’s current research considers new models of corporate regulation, corporate criminal liability, blame, and sanctions.

Lauretta Tomasco is Associate Director of the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research in the Legal Studies Department at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and has served in this role since the establishment of the Center in 1997. Lauretta joined The Wharton School in 1987 as an administrator in the ethics area. Her other positions at Wharton include Coordinator of The Wharton Ethics Program and Staff Coordinator of the Ethics & Legal Studies Doctoral Program. Between 2000 and 2003, Lauretta served as Associate Director of the Undergraduate Division of the Wharton School under former Vice Dean Thomas W. Dunfee. In this position she played a key role in launching an undergraduate research program and expanding study abroad sites for Wharton undergraduate students in Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Schan Duff is a second year doctoral student whose work focuses on financial regulation, law and corporate strategy, and normative aspects of consumer financial services. 

Schan received a B.A. in Political Economy from Williams College and a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics and elected to the Order of the Coif.  He clerked for Chief Judge Anthony J. Scirica on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and was an American Inns of Court Temple Bar Scholar in London, England.  Prior to Wharton, Schan worked for nearly a decade in the Washington, D.C. office of a prominent international law firm. While there, he represented banks, diversified financial institutions, private investment firms and individuals in state and federal court, as well as in regulatory and enforcement matters before the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Labor, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, and various Congressional committees and state agencies.  Prior to his legal career, Schan worked as a management consultant in San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.

Schan is an elected member of the American Law Institute and an honorary member of the Commercial Bar Association of England and Wales.  He is a member of the bar in California and the District of Columbia, and is admitted to practice in numerous federal courts, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Schan is Wharton’s Corporate Social Responsibility Fellow and a Fellow of the Zicklin Center.

Djordjija Petkoski is Lead Specialist at the World Bank and the head of the Business-led Collective Action Against Corruption team at the World Bank Institute. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Since joining the World Bank in 1992, Dr. Petkoski has focused business and development, competitiveness and sustainable development, anti-corruption, governance, corporate responsibility, climate change, ethics, leadership and leading change, with work experience in Asia, Latin America, the Former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa. In this capacity Petkoski has engaged with over 100 companies worldwide, including SAP, Nestle, Uniliver, Siements, DSM, PesiCo, Mars, BAFS, UNICA, Britannia, and Cemex.

Martin Sandbu is the economics leader writer for the Financial Times. He is also a (non-resident) senior research fellow at the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Sandbu has written and lectured widely on economic policy, economic development and natural resources, business ethics, and political philosophy. His work has been published in academic journals in economics, philosophy, and political science, and he is the author of several policy reports. He has appeared on the BBC World Service, NPR Morning Edition, and CNBC. Martin Sandbu's book Just Business: Arguments in Business Ethics has just been published by Prentice Hall. (Customers in Europe, please go to Pearson's UK online store.)

Sandbu has a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Balliol College, University of Oxford, and an A.M. and Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University.