Thomas Donaldson (ethicist)


Thomas Donaldson is The Mark O. Winkelman Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an expert in the areas of business ethics, corporate compliance, corporate governance, and leadership.
He is Associate Editor for the Business Ethics Quarterly
Donaldson received his PhD at the University of Kansas in 1976 and his BS from the same institution in 1967.
Donaldson has authored or edited several books:
His other writings have appeared in publications such as The Academy of Management Review, the Harvard Business Review, Ethics, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Economics and Philosophy.

Awards and distinctions

Prior to 1996, he held the position of the John F. Connelly Professor of Business Ethics in the School of Business at Georgetown University. There he was voted Outstanding Teacher of the Year by MBA students and Distinguished Researcher of the Year by business school faculty members.
In the summer of 2002, he testified in the US Senate regarding the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform legislation. In October, 2006, he delivered a two-hour address/workshop to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, and the other Assistant Secretaries General regarding the UN’s reform initiative.