BIO

Oliver Williams, C.S.C. specializes in the areas of business ethics, corporate governance and Catholic social teaching. Williams is the editor or author of 15 books as well as numerous articles on business ethics in journals. He is the director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. A former Naval Officer, Williams earned his doctorate from Vanderbilt University and his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Notre Dame. He is a Catholic priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross. He served as associate provost of the University of Notre Dame from 1987-94 and is a past chair of the Social Issues Division of the Academy of Management. In 2006, he was appointed a member of the four-person Board of Directors at the United Nations Global Compact Foundation. The United Nations Global Compact is the world’s largest voluntary corporate citizenship initiative with over 5,000 businesses around the world as members.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Pastoral theology
• Catholic social thought
• Business, government and society
• Business ethics
• corporate governance

EDUCATION

• BS, University of Notre Dame
• MS, University of Notre Dame
• Ph D, Vanderbilt University

TEACHING

• Intro to Business Ethics
• Spirituality and Work
• United Nations Global Compact
• Spirituality of Work
• United Nations Global Compact I
• United Nations Global Compact II
• Business Ethics
• Conceptual Foundations of Business Ethics
• Spirituality and Business
• Foundations of Business Ethics
• Introduction to Business Ethics
• Conceptual Foundation of Business Ethics
• Ethics in a Changing Business Environment
• Religion, Spirituality and Work: A New Synthesis
• Stellenbosch University
• Conceptual Found. Bus. Ethics
• Organizational Behavior

HOMEPAGE

• www.nd.edu/~owilliam

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Peace Through Commerce: Responsible Corporte Citizenship and the Ideals of the UN Global Compact, (with , , , , ), University of Notre Dame Press (September2008).

PRESENTATIONS

Oliver F Williams, C.S.C., Notre Dame Club of Philadelphia, University of Notre Dame Alumni Assoication, St. Joseph University, Philadelphia, PA, "Recent Catholic Social Thought, The Challenge and the Promise," (December16, 2009).

Oliver F Williams, C.S.C., Net Impact Annual Meeting, Net Impact, Cornell Universilty, Ithica, New Yotk, "The Vision of the UN Global Compact," (November14, 2009).

Oliver F Williams, C.S.C., Club of 20 Presidents, Club of 20 Presidents, Elcona Country Club, Elkhart, Indiana, "Ethics and the Financial Crisis," (September25, 2009).

Oliver F Williams, C.S.C., Mendoza College of Business, Univ of Notre Dame, Sophomore Orientation, Washington Hall, Notre Dame, "The Un Global Compact and Net Impact," (August24, 2009).

Oliver F Williams, C.S.C., University of Cape Town Faculty Seminar, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, Cape Town, South Africa, "The Role of the Principles for Responsible Management Education(PRME)," (August4, 2009).

Oliver F Williams, C.S.C., Nelson Mandela University, College of Business, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, "Ethics for Business in the 21st Century," (June11, 2009).

Oliver F Williams, C.S.C., The World Civic Forum, United Nations, Seoul, South Korea, "Educating for Capitalism in the 21st Century: The Role of the Principles for Responsible Management Education(PRME)," (May7, 2009).

Oliver F Williams, C.S.C., Can Shareholder Interests and Society's Interests Be Aligned?, UN, Millennium UN Plaza, New York City, "The Role of the UN Global Compact," (April27, 2009).

Oliver F Williams, C.S.C., Patrick E Murphy, , Notre Dame Club of Fort Wayne, University of Notre Dame Alumni Club, Fort Wayne, Indiana, "Business Ethics in the 21st Century," (March23, 2009).

Oliver F Williams, C.S.C., Dominican University Series on Globalization, Sustainabliity and U.S., Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois, "Recasting the Bottom Line," (March19, 2009).