David Nitkin
President
EthicScan

David is a rare breed in North America: a full-time organizational ethicist. He does original writing, teaching, consulting and research on ethical decision making, enhancing corporate social accountability, auditing, and reporting, and developing ethics assurance programs, including transparency, risk management, ethical management and safe partnering.  Mr Nitkin is

• President of EthicScan Canada, Canada's oldest, largest and well respected, full-service corporate responsibility research house and ethics consultancy
• Co-author or editor of several books, including The Ethical Shoppers Guide, Shopping With a Conscience, Ethical Wills, and Conscious Consumption          
• An international speaker, writer and trainer in the area of Integrity in Business
• Publisher of The Corporate Ethics Monitor.
• Past national president of the Ethics Practitioners Association of Canada
• Sessional lecturer in International Business Ethics, Schulich School of   Business, York  University
• Integrity advisor, investigator and researcher for governments, civil society organizations, corporations and businesses
• Author of over one hundred and fifty published studies or comparative reviews of corporate and organizational integrity behaviour;
• Team manager of the EthicsAssurance© enterprise pulse taking tool;
• President of the Canadian Clearing-house For Consumer and Corporate Ethics

David provides ethics training, advice and research for clients both internationally and in Canada. He consults and trains widely with a variety of clients, including industry associations (on topics like the ethics of stakeholder management; external expectations of business, and corporate adaptation to climate change); public service sector organizations  (integrity commissions, human rights commissions, and anti-corruption tribunals); corporations (ethics audits; updating corporate codes of responsible business practice; and benchmarking best practice sustainable business); social agencies (donor screening; ethics audits; fundraising management in not-for-profits); and civil society organizations (ethical partnerships; risk and reputation management; and demographic and social futures). 

Mr Nitkin graduated with a MA (Historical Geography, York University), and at the top of his class in Honours BA (Geography, University of Toronto). David lectures widely on a number of ethics themes: notably, ethics assurance; the changing nature of corporate responsibility; organizational reputation management; and effective frameworks for enhancing ethical management in corporations. 

David's many volunteer and community service appointments include Board positions with the Bathurst-Lawrence Four Quadrants Neighbourhood Alliance, The Ethics Practitioners Association of Canada, and breakfast team leader for Toronto’s Out of the Cold Program.