Widely known as a provocative speaker and stimulating author, Rushworth Kidder brings more than 30 years of insights to his discussions of corporate and global ethics.

Dr. Kidder's latest book, Moral Courage (HarperCollins, 2005), uses real-life stories from business, education, government, sports, and other

areas to explain what moral courage is, what it does, and how we can develop it.
Dr. Kidder's previous book, How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living, has been praised by Jimmy Carter as "a thought-provoking guide to enlightened and progressive personal behavior."

His prolific writings often involve him in interviews with business and government leaders around the world. For his 1994 book Shared Values for a Troubled World: Conversations with Men and Women of Conscience, he interviewed 24 opinion makers from 16 countries in an effort to identify a global code of ethics. Commenting on this book, Bill Moyers noted that "only Rush Kidder would have made this odyssey, and only Rush Kidder could have returned with such a valuable cargo of insights."

Dr. Kidder also serves as executive editor of Ethics Newsline®, the world's first weekly, Internet-based, ethics information service, for which he writes a weekly column.

Prior to founding the Institute for Global Ethics in 1990, Kidder was senior columnist for The Christian Science Monitor, an international daily newspaper highly regarded for its depth, balance, and ethical stance. From 1983 to 1990, he wrote the paper's weekly "Perspectives" column on social issues and trends. A native New Englander, he joined the Monitor as London correspondent in 1979, returning to Boston to write the weekly "Boston" column from 1981 to 1983. From 1983 to 1985, as feature editor, he was part of the six-person team running the paper.

Before joining the paper, Dr. Kidder taught English for ten years at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. An honors graduate of Amherst College in 1965, he earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in English and comparative literature in 1969. In 1980, he won the Explicator Literary Foundation Award for his book on the poetry of E. E. Cummings. Two of his Monitor essays appeared in the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Best Newspaper Writing, 1983. The New York Times has described Kidder as one of the Monitor's "most celebrated journalists."

Kidder has been a trustee of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in Flint, Michigan, since 1990. He serves on the advisory council of the Character Education Partnership, the research council for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, The Conference Board Working Group on Global Business Ethics Principles, the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, and the advisory board of Religion & Ethics Newsweekly on public television. He is a Fellow of the George H. Gallup International Institute, is on the advisory board of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, and has also served on the Values and Ethics Committee for Independent Sector in Washington, DC. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have two daughters and live in Lincolnville, Maine.

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Education/Certifications/Professional Organizations:

Amherst College, 1965
Ph.D. from Columbia University, 1969