Offices Held in Professional Associations and Other Academic Institutions

International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics (ISBEE):

  • Special Advisor to the Sixth ISBEE World Congress in Shanghai, 2012-2016.
  • President, 2001-2004. Immediate Past President, 2005-2008.
  • Chair of the Organizing Committees of the Third ISBEE World Congress of Business, Economics, and Ethics, July 14-17, 2004, in Melbourne, Australia.
  • Vice President and General Secretary, 1997-2000. 
  • Co-Chair of the Second World Congress of Business, Economics, and Ethics, July 19-23, 2000, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • Program Chair of the First World Congress of Business, Economics, and Ethics, July 25-28, 1996 in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Co-Founder and Member of the Organizing Committee of ISBEE, 1989-1996.

European Business Ethics Network (EBEN):

  • Program Committee of the EBEN-Conference on “Shaping Cities: The Role and Respon­si­bility of Business,” Paris, 1992.
  • Chairman, Program Committee of the EBEN-Conference “People in Corpora­tions: Ethical Responsibilities and Corporate Effectiveness,” Barcelona, 1989.
  • Program Committee of the First EBEN Conference in Brussels, 1987.
  • Co-Founder (1985) and Treasurer of EBEN, 1987-1992.

Offices in China:

  • Visiting Professor of Business Ethics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 2018.
  • Research Fellow, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, 2014-2018.
  • Visiting Professor of Business Ethics, Shanghai Academic Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, 2011-2013.
  • Guest Professor, Centre for Business Ethics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China, 2010-2013.
  • Permanent Guest Professor, Henan University of Finance and Economics, Zhengzhou, China, 2009-2011.
  • Concurrent Professor at East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, 2004-2007.
  • Fellow of the Center for Business Ethics at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China, 1999-2010.
  • “Specially Invited Research Professor” of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China, 1998-2005.
  • Affiliated Fellow of the Centre for Applied Ethics (CAE), Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, 1997-2003.
  • Permanent Advisor of the Centre for Applied Ethics and Business Ethics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 1994-2002.

Other Offices:

  • Fellow of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2013-.
  • Member of the Board and of the Scientific Committee of the Foundation Ambros Lüthi, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 2013-.
  • Member of the Supervisory Board of the Institute of Business Ethics, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2011-2018.
  • Fellow of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, 1999-.
  • Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame, 1999-.
  • Consejo Académico Internacional of Centro de Ética y Humanidades para la Empresa, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Viña del Mar, Chile. 1998-2002.
  • Comitato Maurizio Milanesi (Italian Foundation for Business Ethics Research), 1996-2004.
  • Scientific Committee of the Istituto per i Valori d’Impresa (ISVI), Milan. 1993-2004.
  • Commission “Economics and Ethics”, Verein für Socialpolitik, Germany, 1986-2000.
  • Planning and organization of the Research Symposium on “Ethics and Economics” at the University of St. Gallen, 1984.