Producing Leaders of Character and Integrity

Mr. Tulio Albuquerque, Initbridge

Mr. Albuquerque has 13 years of experience working on the financial industry in the Unites States. He has worked in major companies within the financial industry. He is founder and CEO of Initbridge, a company specialized on bringing innovative companies into the United States and American companies abroad. Mr. Albuquerque is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Mr. Albuquerque holds an Executive Masters of Technology Management, a joint degree from the Wharton School of Business and School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he has obtained a Masters in Science and Engineering in Telecommunications from the University of Pennsylvania, a Bachelor’s in International Relations as well as a Post-baccalaureate in Computer Science from Ursinus College.

Prof. Mitch Berman, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Mitch Berman writes and teaches in American constitutional law, constitutional theory, philosophy of criminal law, general jurisprudence, and philosophy of sport at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His work and thinking in these diverse fields is unified and shaped by his interest in deepening our understanding of normativity and normative systems. That is to say, he examines the contents and upshots of our normative concepts; the architecture of normative systems; and the way that the rights, powers, permissions, and duties that our normative systems deliver gain whatever contents they have.

Prof. Mark Doorley, Villanova University

Prof. Mark Doorley is the Director of the Ethics Program at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of Villanova University. He earned a M.Div. at Washington Theological Union in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston College in 1994. His graduate work focused on the philosophy of Bernard J. F. Lonergan, S.J. He joined the faculty at Villanova University in 1996 and since 2005 has served as the Director of the Ethics Program in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. He has been a practitioner and champion of service-learning at the university since 1998. These past 10 years he has turned his attention to environmental ethics. From 2007 until 2016 he served as the President of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Environmental Transformation, a non-profit in Camden, NJ. The mission of the Center is to invite people into the work of environmental justice and restoration.

Carol Eggert, Comcast, Vice President, Military, and Veteran Affairs, Brigadier General (R), U.S. Army

Carol Eggert is Vice President, Military and Veteran Affairs for Comcast. In this role, she works collaboratively across Comcast NBCUniversal to provide strategic leadership to all aspects of programs and outreach engaging the military and veteran community, including talent acquisition, business development, customer care and corporate recognition programs. Gen. Eggert has more than 30 years of military and civilian experience to Comcast. In her civilian role, she assisted various organizations in the private, government and non-profit sectors with their initiatives in knowledge management, strategic planning and project management. During her career, she served in the Army, the Army Reserve and the National Guard, serving in a variety of command and staff positions, including Assistant Adjutant General, Battalion Commander and Chief of Staff and recently retired as a Brigadier General. She is the recipient of numerous awards and commendations in recognition of her contributions to the military, including the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Purple Heart and multiple awards of the Meritorious Service Medal.

Prof. Tulia G. Falleti, Latin American and Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Prof. Falleti is the Class of 1965 Term Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program, and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which earned the Donna Lee Van Cott Award to the best book on political institutions by the Latin American Studies Association. She is co-editor, with Orfeo Fioretos and Adam Sheingate, of The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2016), among other edited books. Her articles on decentralization, federalism, authoritarianism, and qualitative methods have appeared in edited volumes and journals such as the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Publius, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Qualitative Sociology, among others. Falleti is working on a book on civic engagement in Latin America.

Prof. Claire O. Finkelstein, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Founder and Director of the Center of Ethics and Rule of Law. Prof. Finkelstein writes at the intersection of moral and political philosophy and the law. She has published extensively in the areas of criminal law theory, moral and political philosophy as applied to legal questions, jurisprudence, and rational choice theory, and has recently begun writing on the law and ethics of war. One of her distinctive contributions is bringing philosophical rational choice theory to bear on legal theory. She has focused in recent years on the implications of Hobbes’ political theory for substantive legal questions. She is currently finishing a book entitled Contractarian Legal Theory and is the editor (with Jens Ohlin and Andrew Altman) of a volume entitled Targeted Killings: Law & Mortality in an Asymmetrical World (Oxford University Press, 2012), and of Hobbes on Law (Ashgate, 2005). She has been a Co-Director of Penn’s Institute for Law and Philosophy.

Prof. Kevin Govern, Ave Maria Law School

Professor Govern began his legal career as an Army Judge Advocate, serving 20 years at every echelon during peacetime and war in worldwide assignments involving every legal discipline. He has also served as an Assistant Professor of Law at the United States Military Academy and teaches at Ave Maria School of Law, California University of Pennsylvania and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He has published widely and spoken frequently on international and comparative law, national security and homeland security law, military operations, and professional ethics.

Prof. Michael C. Horowitz, University of Pennsylvania

Michael C. Horowitz is an associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and the associate director of Penn’s Perry World House. He is the author of the new book, Why Leaders Fight, and previously authored the award-winning book, The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics. His research interests include military innovation, the role of leaders in international politics, forecasting, and the relationship between religion and international politics. He has published in a wide array of peer reviewed journals, as well as more popular outlets such as the New York Times and Politico. Professor Horowitz previously worked for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy in the Department of Defense as an International Affairs Fellow.

Mr. Osagie Imasogie, Pheonix IP Ventures

Mr. Imasogie has over 30 years of experience in the field of law, finance, business management, healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry. He is a co-founder of Phoenix IP Ventures, prior to which he conceptualized and established GlaxoSmithKline Ventures and was its founding Vice President. Mr. Imasogie has held senior commercial and R&D positions within pharmaceutical companies such as GSK, SmithKline, DuPont Merck and Endo, where he was the founding General Counsel and SVP for Corporate Development. He has also been a Price Waterhouse Corporate Finance Partner as well as a practicing attorney with a leading US Law Firm in the fields of corporate, corporate finance, taxation and intellectual property law. Mr. Imasogie is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Iroko Pharmaceuticals as well as Chairman of iCeutica Inc. He was a co-founder and former President, CEO and Chairman of Ception Therapeutics Inc. and the Founding President & CEO of Trigenesis Therapeutics Inc. Mr. Imasogie is a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and also a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he is an Adjunct Professor of Law. He is also the 2008 recipient of the Penn Law School Alumni Award of Merit and the 2006 recipient of the Penn Law School Adjunct Teaching Award.

Prof. Dwight Jaggard, University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Dwight Jaggard consults, coaches and lectures on four continents on the topics of leadership, decision-making, influence, persuasion, power, communication and team dynamics. He has worked with several thousand high-potentials, emerging leaders, students and professionals who want to discover where they can best make their contribution to the world. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), and was the Chair of the Penn Faculty Senate enhancing self-governance for 4500 faculty. He has been teaching leadership at Penn for the past two decades and is the recipient of the Christian F. and Mary R. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching and the S. Reid Warren Jr. Award for Distinguished Teaching. Dwight is also on the faculty of the Young India Fellowship (Sonepat, India) where he teaches leadership each summer. He was the co-founder of a high-technology business created to commercialize research results from Penn. He is the author of several hundreds of presentations and publications, and the inventor on half a dozen patents. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the OSA.

Lt. Gen. Dirk Jameson, (ret.) United States Air Force

Lt. Gen. Dirk Jameson retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1996 after more than three decades of service. Jameson’s final assignment was a Deputy Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Strategic Command. Jameson commanded 20th Air Force and was responsible for U.S. ICBM forces. He is now the Vice Chairman of the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors. Jameson served as Chief of Staff and Director of Command Control, Strategic Air Command, and commanded the Air Force Strategic Missile Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. He was instrumental in facilitating military-to-military exchanges with the commander of Russia’s strategic rocket forces. After retiring from the Air Force, Jameson served as President of Arrowsmith Technologies Inc., a software development company; Vice President of Alliant Techsystems Inc., an aerospace corporation; President and CEO of Starcraft Boosters Inc., and Executive Director of the Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund. Jameson received the Moller Trophy in 1985 as the Strategic Air Command Outstanding Wing Commander. In 2012, he was awarded the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award by the Tufts University Institute for Global Leadership.

Mr. Jeffrey Klein, Wharton Leadership Program

Jeffrey Klein is the Executive Director of the Wharton Leadership Program and a Lecturer at the Wharton School and the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Jeff is responsible for the portfolio of curricular and co-curricular leadership development programs available to Wharton Undergraduates and fulltime and executive MBA students, and for directing the School’s efforts to create the Wharton Global Leadership Institute. He teaches an interdisciplinary graduate level course at the University of Pennsylvania, Leadership and Social Change; supervises multiple Field Application Projects; and delivers a variety of workshops, seminars, and conferences for students, managers, and executives. Jeff also chairs the Steering Committee for the Lipman Family Prize, an annual $125,000 social sector award launched in 2011. In addition, Jeffrey designs and delivers leadership workshops and courses for executive clients through Wharton Executive Education. As a Learning Director, Jeff leads two weeklong executive courses, Creating and Leading High Performing Teams and The Leadership Edge: Strategies for New Leaders. He also worked with a variety of corporate, nonprofit, and governmental clients, including Alcoa, AXA, the City of Philadelphia, Deloitte, FINRA, iDE, Komaza, Merrill Lynch, the Mt. Rainier Institute, the National Outdoor Leadership School, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, the Philadelphia Eagles Youth Partnership, Toyota, the United Nations, and Vanguard.

Dr. Lonnie Morris, Griffin Rodgers & Associates LLC

Lonnie R. Morris, Jr. is founder and chief leadership officer for Griffin Rodgers & Associates LLC., a boutique consulting group dedicated to improving workplace experiences through leadership development, capability building, and innovative work processes. Morris transitioned to leadership and organizational development consulting after more than 15 years as a senior university administrator with appointments in several of our nation’s urban centers including Baltimore, MD, Raleigh, NC, Memphis, TN, Oakland, CA, Jacksonville, FL, and Washington, DC. Morris is actively engaged in professional and community leadership. He is the current ethics chair for the International Leadership Association. He has worked in multiple capacities to expand the lens through which leaders view diversity & inclusion. This includes work as senior consultant for Bell & Lindsay, Inc., serving on the professional access and equity committee for the Southern Association of College Registrars and Admission Officers, and extended work with the Monster.com Diversity Leadership Program. He has served on advisory boards for multiple community organizations including Empowering People in the Community (Philadelphia, PA), the East Bay Consortium (Oakland, CA), Cheers for a Cause (Washington, DC), the LMCP College Project (Richmond, CA) and the Black Collegiate Network (Memphis, TN).

Mr. Nick Lovegrove, Brunswick Group

Nick Lovegrove is a veteran consultant, executive coach, and writer. He is currently the US managing partner of the Brunswick Group, a global corporate advisory firm. He previously spent more than thirty years of his career at McKinsey & Company, where he became a senior partner in the London Office, and then the managing partner of the Washington, DC Office. He took time out of his McKinsey career to serve as a strategic advisor to British Prime Minister Tony Blair; and he has worked with multiple organizations in the business, government and non-profit sectors.  Nick has been a senior fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government; a senior fellow in the Global Economy program of the Brookings Institution; and a visiting lecturer at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government. He is a graduate of Oxford and Harvard universities, and has an MBA from INSEAD in France. Nick is the author of The Mosaic Principle: The Six Dimensions of a Remarkable Life and Career, which will be published by Public Affairs in the US on November 1, 2016 and by Profile Books in the UK on January 26, 2017.

 
Mary McDaniel, Chief Ethics Officer, Philadelphia City Council

Mary McDaniel was appointed the Chief Ethics Officer for Philadelphia City Council on February 2, 2016, after Council created the position in January of 2016. Immediately prior to her appointment, she had been serving informally as City Council’s Integrity Officer, as well as providing legislative drafting and research assistance for Council. As the Chief Ethics Officer, she provides guidance and assistance to Council members and staffers in understanding their duties under the various ethical laws and regulations. She also acts as a liaison for members and staffers in obtaining assistance from the Philadelphia Board of Ethics and the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission. She gained experience in government ethics through her prior position as Legal Counsel for the Pennsylvania House Committee on Ethics. She has served in many other facets of government as well, notably, as a Pennsylvania State Trooper, an Assistant District Attorney in Lancaster County, Counsel to the Pennsylvania State Police, a prosecutor for the PA Department of State, and Assistant Chief of Staff for Public Safety under Governor Rendell.

Rear Admiral James E. McPherson, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, United States Navy (ret.)

RADM McPherson is the Executive Director of the National Association of Attorney’s General, one of the oldest legal associations in the country. Prior to joining NAAG, RADM McPherson served as the General Counsel for the Department of Defense Counterintelligence Field Activity from 2006 – 2008 where he was responsible for providing legal advice and assistance in the areas of counterintelligence operational and policy matters, intelligence oversight, and a full range of administrative law matters. In 2006, RADM McPherson completed a distinguished career in the United States Navy retiring as a two-star rear admiral. Highlights of his career include assignments as a trial attorney, senior prosecutor, senior defense attorney, and Commanding Officer at Naval Legal Service and Trial Service Offices. He served as a staff judge advocate in assignments in the United States, overseas, and afloat. He was legal counsel to the Vice Chief and Chief of Naval Operations. RADM McPherson’s first flag assignment was as the Deputy Judge Advocate General and Commander, Naval Legal Service Command. In 2004, he was appointed by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the U.S. Navy’s 39th Judge Advocate General — an appointment he held until his retirement.

Judge Sérgio Fernando Moro, Federal Judge, Thirteenth Federal Criminal Court, Curitiba, Brazil

Judge Moro is a Brazilian federal judge who has gained national fame for commanding the prosecution of the crimes identified in the investigation nicknamed Operação Lava Jato (Operation Car Wash, in English), a case of high-profile scandals of corruption and bribery involving government officials and business executives. Sérgio Moro earned his bachelors of law degree at Maringa State University in 1995, and became a federal judge in 1996. He also studied abroad through an exchange program at Harvard Law School in 1998. He earned a doctorate at the Federal University of Paraná in 2002. Currently, he is an adjunct law professor there and acts as a federal judge in high-profile cases—including Operation Carwash. In 2007, he participated in the United States Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program in which he visited U.S. agencies and institutions responsible for preventing and combating money laundering. Besides working on Operation Carwash, he also coordinated the criminal case dubbed “Banestado,” which resulted in the prosecution of 97 individuals, and Operation “Farol da Colina”—in which he decreed the preventive arrest of 103 suspects for committing money laundering, tax evasion and other crimes. Among the arrested was Alberto Youssef, also accused in the Carwash case. He participated on the judicial team prosecuting the Mensalão scandal as well.

Mr. Robert Mundheim, Shearman & Sterling

Robert H. Mundheim is Of Counsel to Shearman & Sterling and formerly Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Salomon Smith Barney Holdings Inc. Prior to joining Salomon Inc. as its Executive Vice President and General Counsel in September 1992, Mr. Mundheim was Co-Chairman of the New York law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson and University Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he had taught since 1965. He served as Dean of that institution for seven and a half years (1982-1989). Mr. Mundheim advises on corporate governance issues and has counseled special committees in the buy-outs of HCA, Aramark and Bright Horizons. He also chaired the Special Committee in the buy-out of Quadra Realty Trust. He advised the Review Committee of the JPMorgan Chase Board of Directors in connection with its review of the issues arising out of the London Whale matter. Among his other professional activities, Mr. Mundheim has been General Counsel to the U.S. Treasury Department (1977-1980); Special Counsel to the Securities and Exchange Commission (1962-1963); and Vice Chairman, Governor-at-Large and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Association of Securities Dealers (1988-1991).

 
Dr. Jeffrey D. Peterson, United States Military Academy

Dr. Jeffrey D. Peterson serves as the Chair for the Study of Officership at the Simon Center for the Professional Military Ethic, United States Military Academy. He was commissioned as an Officer in the United States Army from West Point in 1987. He served for 28 years in a variety of leadership and staff positions in the United States, Korea, Cuba, and the Middle East to include a combat battalion command during “the surge” in Iraq. After command, he served as the director of West Point’s economics program from 2008 – 2014. In 2012, Dr. Peterson was also the director for the Center for the Army Profession and Ethic where he led the effort to publish the Army’s first doctrinal manual on the Army Profession and Army Ethic. As the Chair of Officership at West Point, he teaches a capstone course on military leadership, designs and assesses character and leader development programs, and advises senior leaders on the state of West Point’s Honor System. He holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a PhD in Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School.