Timothy L. Fort

Title: Chairman and The Lindner-Gambal Professor of Business Ethics

Department: Strategic Management and Public Policy

Address: Funger Hall, Suite 615M

Phone: (202) 994-7872

Email: timfort@gwu.edu

Degrees: Ph. D., Northwestern University; 1995

J.D., Northwestern University School of Law, 1993

M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1983

B.A., University of Notre Dame, 1980

Area of Expertise: Ethics and Corporate Governance; Organizational Structures and Ethics; The Role of Religion in Business Ethics; Globalization and Business Ethics

Publications: He is co-author of the The Role of Business in Fostering Peaceful Societies published by Cambridge University Press in 2004. He has authored two other books to be published later this year: Business, Integrity, and Peace: Beyond Geopolitical and Disciplinary Boundaries from Cambridge University Press and Prophets, Profits, and Passion: How Corporations Can Be Instruments of Peace and Enhance Religious Harmony from Yale University Press.

Editorial Positions: Academy of Management Review (editorial board)

Business Ethics Quarterly (editorial board)

American Business Law Journal (editorial board)

Organization Science (ad hoc)

Journal of Business Ethics (ad hoc)

Current Research: How ethical business behavior can contribute to the reduction of violence in the world; optimal organizational structures to foster affective ethical sentiments in business, the role of religion in business ethics, issues in the commercialization of science and technology.

Other: Fort is the Executive Director of the GW Institute for Corporate Responsibility (IRC)and the Director of the GW Peace Through Commerce program. He is an Academic Advisor for the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics and a Fellow of the William Davidson Institute. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the George Washington University School of Law.