Mollie Painter-Morland
DePaul University Associate Director, The Institute for Business and Professional Ethics
Director, Center for Business and Professional Ethics
University of Pretoria, South Africa

Mollie Painter-Morland (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University and Associate Director of its Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. She was educated at the University of Johannesburg and the University of Pretoria in South Africa. For many years, she was the Director of the Centre for Business and Professional Ethics at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. In this capacity she acted as ethics management consultant to various business corporations and the South African government, and pursued research into proactive corruption prevention strategies. Since her move to DePaul University in Chicago in 2004, Mollie has been concentrating on her research, which focuses on understanding the emergence of a certain ethos in various organizational contexts. In 2007, she completed two book projects. The first book, with Cambridge University Press (2008), is entitled: Business Ethics, Business Ethos. In this book she argues that we should replace ethics programs in organizations with an interactive process aimed at facilitating the emergence of an ethical corporate ethos. The second text, Cutting-edge Issues in Business Ethics: Continental Challenges to Theory and Practice (Springer, 2008) is a volume that Mollie co-edited with colleague Patricia Werhane. This volume is one of the first of its kind to invite scholars to apply Continental philosophy to the field of Business Ethics. Mollie serves as Editor of Springer’s series in Business Ethics. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE), the Ethics Oversight Board of PwC (PriceWaterhouseCoopers) South Africa, and the Editorial Board of AJOBE, the African Journal of Business Ethics. In addition to her book projects, Mollie continues to publish peer reviewed articles in many of the most prominent journals in her field, including Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business Ethics: A European Review. As the Associate Director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, she also provide continuing professional education by offering short training workshops in professional ethics to CPA’s and other professionals.