People
DIRECTOR
William S. Laufer is Julian Aresty Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Sociology, and Criminology and Director of the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is working 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.
William S. Laufer
Lauretta Tomasco
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
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 Staff Coordinator of The Wharton Ethics Program, Staff Coordinator of the Ethics & Legal Studies Doctoral Program and Staff Advisor of the Social Impact and Responsibility Secondary Concentration. 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.
Djordjija Petkoski
SENIOR FELLOW
Djordjija Petkoski has held various senior positions at the World Bank, including head of the Business, Competitiveness and Development Program. Today, he serves as a consultant and adviser to the World Bank.
During his nearly 20 year tenure at the World Bank, Dr. Petkoski has focused on multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder approach to business and development issues; collective action and the changing role of business in society; competitiveness and sustainable development at the national and corporate level; as well as the impact of climate change, poverty and corruption issues on corporate strategy; and leadership and leading change. Dr. Petkoski has also been a leading World Bank expert on corporate social responsibility (CSR), business ethics, and business lead collective action against corruption.
Dr. Petkoski developed and launched the CSR program at the World Bank in early nineties, led the development of several global knowledge sharing platforms, and pioneered web-based training.
While at the World Bank, Dr. Petkoski managed over 340 global projects; led the design and delivery of, and lectured at, nearly 30 executive development programs; and engaged with over 100 leading companies worldwide with consulting experience across a broader range of industries including agribusiness, food and beverage, and high technology industries. He launched and led the Business Lead Collective Action against Corruption international consortium of organizations and companies. He also led capacity building and movement building of global and regional action networks, such as MENA and Africa Responsible Business Networks.
Schan Duff
FELLOW
Schan Duff is a fourth 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.
Waheed Hussain
FELLOW
Waheed Hussain is an assistant professor in the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard, and an A.B. in Philosophy from Princeton. He works on issues in moral and political philosophy, as they arise in business and economic life.
One of his major interests is ethical consumerism. Consumers today are increasingly using their buying decisions to advance social objectives, such as encouraging fair trade and reducing conflict fueled by the diamond trade. But this growing trend raises important moral questions. Are consumers morally permitted to use their buying power to pressure stores not to stock books and music they find offensive? Does consumer activism undermine more democratic forms decision-making in society? Do consumers have a special responsibility to make up for weak environmental and labor protections in the global marketplace?
At Wharton, Professor Hussain teaches Legal Studies 210, Corporate Responsibility and Ethics and Legal Studies 226, Markets, Morality and the Future of Capitalism. He has a secondary appointment in the Philosophy Department.
Markus Scholz
FELLOW
Markus Scholz read economics and philosophy at HAWK Hildesheim, Leibniz Universität Hannover and the London School of Economics and Political Science. His Ph.D. is on the potential of theory transfer and ethical issues in economics. After completion of his Ph.D., Markus took on a temporary professorship (Professurvertretung) in strategic marketing and market research at the University of Technology, Business and Design Wismar.
Until 2012, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz Universitaet Hannover and led the Philosophy and Ethics of Economics Research Group (PEER), where he pursued a number of projects on business leadership and change management. Markus now holds the endowed professorship in Corporate Governance and Business Ethics at the FHWien University of Applied Sciences, Vienna.
Markus teaches strategic management, consulting, business ethics and philosophy of economics at a number of universities, nationally and internationally. He is coach and consultant in a range of public and private sector projects with a focus on strategy and project management in health care, life sciences and the pharmaceutical industry.
Markus publishes academically and journalistically in numerous journals and magazines, both nationally and internationally.
The Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
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Director
William S. Laufer
Associate Director
Lauretta Tomasco
Contact
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Tel: 215.898.1166
Fax: 215.573.2006