Speaker Bio
Geoffrey Heal, Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Columbia Business School
Geoffrey Heal is the Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility and Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business, and Professor of Public and International Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He has served as Vice Dean of the Business School and managed the Executive MBA Program. Dr. Heal has acted as Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies and has acted on the editorial boards of many other journals. He recently released his critically acclaimed new book When Principles Pay: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line.
In the 1970s, Dr. Heal founded a London-based consulting firm, and in the 1980s, he founded a firm providing systems for telecommunications and data processing to the international securities business. He is a member of the Pew Oceans Commission, a Director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a Director of the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Chair of the National Academy/National Research Council’s Committee on the Valuation of Ecosystem Services, a member of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
Dr. Heal studied Physics and Economics at Cambridge, where he obtained a First Class Honors degree and a Doctorate. He then taught at Cambridge, Stanford, Yale and Princeton and held a Fulbright Professorship at the University of Siena.
The Social Enterprise Conference 2008 is presented by the Columbia Business School's Social Enterprise Club and the International Development Club with the support of the Social Enterprise Program, Energy Club, Microlumbia Fund, Healthcare Industry Association and Green Business Club, and our generous sponsors. |
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