Robert Solomon (vitae, pdf)
University of Texas

Robert C. Solomon has spent the past twenty years thinking, writing and lecturing about the importance of ethics in business. He is the Quincy Lee Centennial Professor and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also taught at Princeton, U.C.L.A., Penn and Pittsburgh and is a frequent visitor at universities and business schools overseas.

Solomon is an Academic Advisor with the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics and president of the International Society for Research on Emotions, the leading international research group in its field. He is the author or editor of five books on business ethics, including Above the Bottom Line, Ethics and Excellence, It's Good Business, A Better Way to Think about Business and Building Trust (with Fernando Flores). He has designed and delivered ethics programs for Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, Texas Commerce Bank in Houston, AT&T, I.B.M. and other Fortune 500 companies. He participated (with Tom Donaldson, Richard de George, and William Ellos) in Motorola's Uncompromising Integrity project. He is also the author of The Passions, A Passion for Justice, About Love and The Joy of Philosophy as well as numerous books on European philosophy.