Ronald E. Berenbeim
Principal Researcher
Business Ethics
The Conference Board

Ronald E. Berenbeim is a Principal Researcher, Business Ethics, at The Conference Board. An authority on business ethics and corporate governance issues, Mr. Berenbeim has written 50 Conference Board studies. His 2000 report, Company Programs forResisting Corrupt Practices: A Global Study, was funded in part by a research grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In 2001-2003 he served as a project director for a World Bank study of private sector anti-corruption practices in East Asia, and co-authored, with Jean-François Arvis, Fighting Corruption in East Asia - Solutions from the Private Sector (The World Bank 2003) which has been translated into Mandarin (2004) and Vietnamese (2005). His most recent Conference Board study is Working at the Intersection of Human Resources, Ethics and Compliance – the Need for Collaboration (2009).  He is currently serving as director for a Conference Board-World Bank project on Trade Competitiveness and Integration of Poor Countries in Global Supply Chains: a Perspective of Global Suppliers and Producers. In 2010 he received a Fulbright grant to teach Business Ethics at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy, France.

His work has also appeared in Across the Board, Business and Society Review, Directorship and Nieman Reports. His speeches have been published in Vital Speeches and ExecutiveSpeeches. Mr. Berenbeim wrote the codes of conduct section for the text Compliance Programs and the Corporate Sentencing Guidelines (Clark Boardman Callahan, 1993). Formerly a Director of Guaranty National Corp., Mr. Berenbeim served on the National Association of Corporate Directors’ Blue Ribbon Commission on the Professional Board. In 2000 he was The New Zealand Centre for Business Ethics Visiting Fellow. He is a graduate of Cornell University, Balliol College Oxford (Keasbey Scholarship) and Harvard Law School. Mr. Berenbeim is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University, where he teaches Markets, Ethics and Law.