Dr . George G Brenkert is Professor of Business Ethics at the McDonough School of Business of George town University . He is former President of the Society for Business Ethics, past Editor -in - Chief of Business Ethics Quarterly , a member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Practicaland Professional Ethics , and an academic fellow of the Ethics Resource Center . He serves on the editorial review boards of Business Ethics Quarterly, Business and Society Review, and Business Ethics : A European Review . He received his doctorate from the University of Michigan . He has recently published Marketing Ethics ( Black well ) , a book in the Foundations of Business Ethics series . He is co - editor of The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics ( forthcoming ) . He has also published Political Freedom ( Routledge ) and Corporate Integrity and Accountability ( SAGE ) . He has published numerous articles pertaining to business ethics and corporate social responsibility . Among the journal she has published in are Business Ethics Quarterly , Journal of Business Ethics , Business and Professional Ethics Journal , Marketing and Public Policy, Journal of Business Venturing, Philosophy & Public Affairs . He is a co - founder of the Trans - Atlantic Business Ethics Conference , a group of business ethicists from both sides of the Atlantic that meets bi - yearly , and a co - organizer of the Capitol Area Business Ethics Network . He is the past director of the Connelly Programin Business Ethics and the George town Business Ethics Institute . Priorto joining the business faculty at George town University , he taught in the philosophy department of the University of Tennessee ( Knoxville ) where he was department head for seven years.