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BIOGRAPHIES
SICCA is a collective of highly committed individuals with diverse professional and academic backgrounds. It employs individuals with senior managerial experience in multinational corporations, legal practitioners, environmental scientists and engineers, and academics with strong theoretical and practical background in national and international business organizations to address issues of business ethics, corporate accountability, and how to improve corporate financial and ethical performance.In addition, SICCA can call upon a large network of experts with background in different industries and geographical regions to provide advice on specific projects. BOARD MEMBERS Rev. David Lowry/, President S. Prakash Sethi, Chief Executive Officer Nathaniel C. Bickford, Board Member Sidney I. Lirtzman, Board Member Hillary S.Ganton, Board Member RESEARCH FELLOWS H. Jack Shapiro, Senior Research Fellow Emre Veral, Senior Research Fellow ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL STAFF Charles A. Riley II, Director of Communications Alex Schwarz, Office Manager and Website Administrator Rev. Dr. David B. Lowry, President Rev. Dr. Lowry is an Episcopal priest and rector of Christ Church, Manhasset, New York. From 1990 until 2004 he was a vice president at Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold, Inc., FM Services and from 1996 to 2004 was President of the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation. At Freeport-McMoRan, Dr. Lowry developed a Community Development Department and a Human Rights Compliance Officer Program for Freeport's international operations. To support these programs he created a Social, Employment and Human Rights Policy, which included the Freeport Partnership Fund that provides 1% of Freeport net income for the development of communities around Freeport's operations. Since 1996 this fund has donated $150 million for local development. In his corporate role, Dr. Lowry worked with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. He has spoken at the Vatican, the University of Notre Dame, the University of New Orleans, the University of Southern Mississippi and the City University of New York about human rights, corporate ethics, community development and globalization. He has published reviews and articles in a number of journals. Prior to joining Freeport, Dr. Lowry was Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in New Orleans. He holds a doctorate in British history as well as master's degrees in theology and European history. BACK TO TOP >> S. Prakash Sethi, Chief Executive Officer Dr. Sethi is an internationally renowned expert on international corporate codes of conduct and has been instrumental in advocating new approaches with regard to their formulation, implementation and performance evaluation. Dr. Sethi has had extensive front-line experience in the field of business ethics. He is the author, most recently, of Setting Global Standards: Guidelines for Creating Codes of Conduct in Multinational Corporations (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003). He spent over 12 years working and studying the operations of the Sullivan Principles in South Africa and their impact on U.S. corporations who were breaking down the apartheid barriers in South Africa. His book on this historic process, co-authored with Rev. Oliver F. Williams of the University of Notre Dame, is The Ethical Corporation: The Sullivan Code of Corporate Conduct in South Africa and the Shaping of a New Vision for Global Business (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, and University of Notre Dame Press, paperback, 2001). He also conducted the seminal study of the infant formula code enacted by the World Health Organization and the Nestle boycott controversy which resulted in a book entitled: Multinational Corporations and the Impact of Public Advocacy on Corporate Strategy: Nestle and the Infant Formula Controversy (Boston: Academic Publishers, 1994). Dr. Sethi has published 24 books and over 135 articles in professional and scholarly journals. He has extensively addressed, in his writings and in speeches around the globe, such topics as political advertising, corporate social responsibility, free markets and business ethics, dynamics of competition, corporate crimes, corporations and politics, corporate governance, economic development, international business and multinational corporations. Between 1998 and 2002, Dr. Sethi served as the Chairperson of the Mattel Independent Monitoring Council for Global Manufacturing Principles (MIMCO). Mattel is one of the world's largest producers of toys. The Global Manufacturing Principles (GMP) are a set of standards dealing with workers' wages, working and living conditions, and human rights, that Mattel has committed itself to adhere to in its worldwide manufacturing facilities. MIMCO is responsible for monitoring Mattel's compliance with the GMP, advise and assist Mattel on improving its performance with regard to the Code, and make regular reports to the public of Mattel's performance and its evaluation by the Council. During 1998 -1999, he served as an Advisor to the Executive Office of the Secretary General on the U.N. sponsored code of conduct called the UN Global Compact, and designed to implement a unified set of global principles pertaining to the treatment of workers. Dr. Sethi regularly advises and consults with multinational corporations, national governments and regulatory agencies, international and multilateral financial institutions on the issues of codes of conducts, their implementation, monitoring and verification. He serves on the boards of directors/advisors for a number of NGOs. He is also a member of editorial boards of various academic and professional journals. Dr. Sethi is University Distinguished Professor, Academic Director of Executive Programs, and Professor of Management at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, The City University of New York. Prior to joining Baruch College in 1982, he has taught at the University of California - Berkley, and University of Texas - Dallas. He holds a Masters in Economics from Delhi University, India, and MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, New York. BACK TO TOP >> Nathaniel C. Bickford, Board Member Mr. Bickford is a Manhattan-based attorney with the firm of Windels Marx Lane and Mittendorf representing investment and hedge fund managers, institutional and individual investors, entrepreneurs, and privately-held corporations. He has extensive experience in representing non-profit corporations and foundations. In addition to domestic and international transactional corporate and securities matters he has also been involved in such industries as book, magazine and newspaper publishing; cellular telephone services; speed reading; day care centers; computer systems and on-line services; mining, geothermal electric power generating; aviation leasing; a foundry; broker/dealers; investment advisors; hedge fund and registered investment company managers; investment bankers; venture capital firms, authors, artists and dealers; franchising organizations; trade show operators and large enterprises owned by an African government. He has been involved in a wide variety of pro bono activities, serving as a trustee of the Williston Northampton School, a member of the president's Council, Yaddo Artists' Colony, a Director of the Harlem School for the Arts and the Millay Colony for the Arts and director of the Big Apple Circus. He is a member of the American (Forum Committee on Franchising) and New York State (Committee on New York State Antitrust Law) Bar Associations, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Committee on African Affairs). BACK TO TOP >> Sidney I. Lirtzman, Board Member Dr. Lirtzman is the former vice president of Baruch College of the City University of New York and dean emeritus of the Zicklin School of Business and Emanuel Saxe Professor Management. He has been a professor of management at Baruch from 1967 to the present and executive officer of the doctoral program in business at the Graduate School and University Enter of the City University of New York. He has served on the board of directors of several businesses and nonprofit organizations, including Youthstream Inc., The Independent Budget Office of the City of New York, the Baillie-Gifford International Fund, Guardian Life Sponsored Mutual Funds, Endo-Lase, Inc., the Society for Chemical Hazard Communication, the International Trademark Association, Connecticut Band and Trust, and the New York Legislative Institute. He is the author of several books and articles on business and business education. BACK TO TOP >> H. Jack Shapiro, Senior Research Fellow Dr. Shapiro is professor emeritus of management at Baruch College, CUNY. Previously he was chairperson of the department of management and director of the Center for Management at the college. Before joining the faculty at the Baruch College he was president and chief executive officer of Ogden Technology Laboratories, Inc., a subsidiary company of the Ogden Corporation. Dr. Shapiro is a graduate professional engineer with several publications and a patent in the aerospace field. He has a BME cum laude from City College, CUNY, an MS in Management Engineering with honors from Long Island University, an MBA from Baruch College, CUNY and an earned Ph.D. in Business with distinction from the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the co-author of three books in the field of management, and has over fifty articles published in various management and business journals such as Management Science, Decision Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review and Long Range Planning. Among many of the rewards and honors he has received one is "Best Paper Citation Award" from the Academy of Management and was a Governor of the Eastern Academy of Management. He has lectured throughout the world for the USIA and was a Visiting Professor of Management at the National University of Singapore. He is a consultant and researcher and has sat and on several boards of directors of industrial corporations. BACK TO TOP >> Emre Veral, Senior Research Fellow Prof. Veral is Professor of Operations Management at Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the Stevens Institute of Technology's Systems Engineering program. His areas of expertise are operations management and quantitative business analysis, with emphasis of healthcare delivery systems. Prof. Veral's research interests include operations and systems modeling and quantitative modeling tools in management science and operations research disciplines. Prof. Veral's research has appeared in various journals, including Decision Sciences, Journal of Operations Management, and Journal of Business Ethics. Through his teaching, research, and consulting activities, Professor Veral has gained experience in strategic decision analysis, logistics of supply chain management, and implementation of quantitative models developed for improving business processes. In addition, his experience during the past years as a code of conduct research associate, working with Sethi International Center for Corporate Accountability (SICCA) which serves as an independent body to monitor corporate accountability in offshore manufacturing, has provided him with intimate knowledge of the relevant theoretical, political, administrative, and fieldwork related aspects of corporate code compliance. BACK TO TOP >> Charles A. Riley II, PhD, Director of Communications Prof. Riley is a journalist and author who has covered regulatory and political issues for business publications, including Fortune magazine. An associate professor of journalism at Baruch College of the City University of New York, he is also the co-founder of WeMedia (www.wemedia.com), the first multimedia company devoted to people with disabilities, and the former editor-in-chief of WE magazine, its national bimonthly magazine, for which he has written two dozen cover stories. A former reporter covering finance, politics and science for Fortune magazine, former senior editor and business analyst for Art & Auction magazine, and frequent contributor to Art & Antiques as well as Antique Monthly magazines, Dr. Riley has appeared on CNN, CNNfn, NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox News as a commentator on world trade, the regulation of business, small business and politics, disability law, corporate diversity, the art market and trade issues involving mainland China. He has been a frequent guest at think tanks including the Salzburg Seminar, Perception International and the Presidential Renaissance Weekends as well as the White House Conference on Small Business. He has won major awards for his coverage of disability from Easter Seals, United Cerebral Palsy, the National Recovery Alliance and other organizations. He has also acted as advisor on both small business and accessibility issues to corporations such as IBM, AT&T and Microsoft, as well as to the White House and the office of the mayor in New York City. He was honored in 1999 as one of the City's leading figures in the area of supporting accessibility and the rights of people with disabilities. He is the author of several books on business, policy and the arts, including Small Business, Big Politics (Petersen's), High-Access Home (Rizzoli), The Arts and the World Economy, Tools of Historic Preservation, Color Codes, The Saints of Modern Art, and the new Aristocracy and the Modern Imagination, (all from University Press of New England, www.dartmouth.edu.acad-inst/upne) as well as two monographs from Abrams, The Art of Peter Max and Ben Schonzeit: Paintings. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the Graduate Center of CUNY. BACK TO TOP >> |
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