Martijn Cremers

Martijn Cremers is the Bernard J. Hank Professor of Finance at the Mendoza College of Business of the University of Notre Dame, where he has been a faculty since 2012.  Prior to that, he was a faculty at Yale School of Management for ten years, from 2002 – 2012. He obtained his PhD in finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University in 2002 and hails from the Netherlands. His research areas are investment management, corporate finance, corporate governance and corporate law, and he teaches 
classes in investments, corporate governance and Catholic social teaching.

His co-authored paper “How active is your fund manager? A new measure that predicts performance” (published in 2009 in the Review of Financial Studies) introduced a novel measure of active management termed ‘Active Share’, which measures how different fund holdings are from the benchmark holdings.

Mary Hirschfeld

Dr. Mary Hirschfeld has taught economics and theology in the Department of Humanities at Villanova since 2011. She received her first doctorate from Harvard University, before teaching economics at Occidental College for fifteen years. Following a conversion to the Catholic faith, she resigned her position and pursued the doctorate in theology at the University of Notre Dame. Her book Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy is forthcoming with Harvard University Press.

Clemens Sedmak

Clemens Sedmak holds a joint appointment in the Keough School of Global Affairs and the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame. He is a professor of social ethics and advisor in Catholic social tradition.

Born in Austria in 1971, Clemens Sedmak has undertaken studies in philosophy, theology, social theory and development theory at the University of Innsbruck, the ETH Zurich, at Maryknoll (New York) and the University of Linz. After having completed doctorates in philosophy, theology and social theory, Clemens Sedmak spent two years in Chicago as a research fellow and took up a Chair for Epistemology and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Salzburg in 2001, a position he held till 2005 when he came to King's College London as FD Maurice Professor for Moral Theology and Social Theology. Since 2005, Clemens Sedmak has been Director of the Center for Ethics and Poverty Research at the University of Salzburg, and since 2008 President of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Ethics in Salzburg. Clemens Sedmak has been visiting professor at the Jomo Kenyatta University in Nairobi, at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, at the University of Jena in Germany, the Vienna Business University, and at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Clemens Sedmak is married with three children.

Stefano Zamagni

Stefano Zamagni is a retired professor of economics from the University of Bologna and adjunct professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center, teaching in areas of international trade theory, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and public sector economies.  The author of numerous books and articles, Professor Zamagni is also an extremely active administrator on a variety of international organizations and committees, including being member of the Executive Committee of International Economy Association (1989-1999) and the Steering Committee of Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Milan, the Academy of Sciences of Bologna and the Academy of Sciences of Modena as well as a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, New York. He was President of ICMC from 1999 to 2007 (an NGO based in Geneva dealing with migrant and refugee issues) and fellow of “Human Development and Capability Association” (Harvard University). He was appointed (2007) President of the Italian Commission for Non Profit sector, Milan, a member of the Advisory Board of EURICSE, Trento. 

Robert Kennedy

Robert G. Kennedy is Professor in the Department of Catholic Studies at the University of St Thomas (St Paul, MN). He formerly held a joint appointment (as professor in the Department of Management) in UST’s Opus College of Business, where he served as Chair of the Faculty in 2004-05. From 2003-2011, he was co-director of the Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law, and Public Policy, a joint project of the Center for Catholic Studies and UST’s School of Law.  He received his PhD in medieval studies from the University of Notre Dame and also holds master’s degrees in biblical criticism and business administration.

Kennedy has been a visiting professor in theology at the University of Dallas, and in business ethics at the Instituto Panamericana in Mexico City. He is the author of some 200 essays, book reviews and articles on a variety of topics, published in the United States, Canada, Latin America and Europe.

His research interests have focused on topics in professional ethics and the application of the Catholic social tradition to problems in contemporary society. He has written articles on corporate social responsibility, professionalism, spirituality in the workplace, wealth creation, and ethical investment, as well as a variety of issues related to culture and public life. His book, The Good that Business Does, was published by the Acton Institute in 2006. He is also a named contributor to the “Reflection on the Vocation of the Business Leader,” published in 2012 by the Pontifical Council on Justice and Peace.

Fr. Martin Schlag

Fr. Martin Schlag holds the Alan W. Moss endowed Chair for Catholic Social Thought at the Center for Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas. He serves as the Director of the John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought.  Fr. Schlag earned his Doctor iuris at the University of Vienna in 1991. In 1996, he was ordained to the priesthood in the Prelature of Opus Dei, and in 1998 he received his Doctor Theologiae from the Pontifical University of Santa Croce. From 2008 to 2017, he was a professor for social-moral theology at Santa Croce, as well as cofounder and Director of its Research Centre Markets, Culture and Ethics. In 2012, he was appointed as a Consultant to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, in 2013 he was appointed as a full professor at Santa Croce, and 2014 as Fellow at the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics in Oxford. Since 2015, he also served as a professor for Business Ethics at the University Roma Tor Vergata, and since 2016 at the IESE Business School in Barcelona. 

He has authored over 80 publications, most notably: Humanism in Economics and Business. Perspectives of the Catholic Social Tradition (New York: Springer 2015), co-authored with Domènec Melé; The Handbook of Catholic Social Teaching: A Guide for Christians in the World Today (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017); and The Business Francis Means: Understanding the Pope’s Message on the Economy (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017).

Alejo Sison

Alejo José G. Sison, Ph.D., holds appointments from the School of Economics of the University of Navarre, and accreditation as Catedrático (Full Professor) from the Spanish state university system. He is also Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Business and Society of IESE Business School. He was formerly Director of the Rafael Escolá Chair of Professional Ethics at the School of Engineering (TECNUN) from 2003 to 2007. Previously, he worked at the University of Asia & the Pacific (Manila). He was President of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) from 2009 to 2012.

In 1997, he was appointed Fulbright Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. Since then, he has received other fellowships from the 21^st Century Trust Foundation (London), the Academic Council on the United Nations System (Yale University), the American Council of International Law (Washington, DC), the Salzburg Seminar, Bentley College (Waltham, MA) and the Policy and Leadership Studies Department of the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He sits at the Editorial Board of the “Business Ethics Quarterly” and is section editor of the “Journal of Business Ethics”.

Andreas Widmer

Andreas E. Widmer is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and the director of the Art & Carlyse Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at The Catholic University of America’s Busch School of Business & Economics.  He is the cofounder of SEVEN Fund, a philanthropic organization run by entrepreneurs who invest in original research, books, films, and websites to further enterprise solutions to poverty. Andreas and his business partner Michael Fairbanks initiated the Pioneers of Prosperity Awards, a first-of-its-kind industry program that finds and promotes the best entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

Andreas works closely with top entrepreneurs, investors, and faith leaders around the world to foster enterprise solutions to poverty and promote virtuous business practices. He has developed entrepreneurial initiatives at the intersection of business and faith including his faith and prosperity blog, the Catholic Mental Models Project, the joint 2010 Essay Competition with the Center for Interfaith Action, and a partnership with the Carpenter’s Fund.

Andreas Widmer served as a Pontifical Swiss Guard from 1986-1988, which eventually led to the writing of The Pope & The CEO: Pope Saint John Paul II’s Lessons to a Young Swiss Guard, a book exploring leadership lessons that Widmer learned serving as a Swiss Guard protecting Pope John Paul II and refined during his career as a successful business executive. 

Andrew Yuengert

Andrew M. Yuengert is the Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Social Science and Professor of Economics at Seaver College, Pepperdine University.  He is a former President of the Association of Christian Economists, and edited its journal, Faith & Economics. His most recent book is Approximating Prudence: Aristotelian Practical Wisdom and Economic Theories of Choice (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). He is working on a book on the place of practical wisdom in Catholic Social Doctrine. During the 2015-16 academic year Professor Yuengert was William Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life at the James Madison Program at Princeton. In the Fall of 2018 he will move to the Catholic University of America.

Maria de Fátima Carioca

Maria de Fátima Carioca is the Dean of AESE Business School and Professor in the area of ​​Human Factor in the Organization.  She holds a PhD in Management from the Manchester Business School - University of Manchester.  Graduated in Electrical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico in 1981 and completed her Master’s degree in Systems and Computer Engineering in 1985, by the same University. Also holds a master in Marriage and Family by the University of Navarra. For over 20 years, Maria de Fátima worked in Software Engineering and Project Management at Edisfoft – a Software services and development company.  She has also been a Human Resources, Quality and Training Manager. At AESE, Maria de Fátima coordinated projects in the area of ​​People Management, Leadership, Family-Work Conciliation, Ethics and Social Responsibility, Future of Work and Family Companies, among which the Most Family Responsible Company Award (2005 to 2010) Best Company to Work (since 2016) and has lead several studies, as the Intergenerational Dialogue in Companies and People in the World 4.0. She is the co-author of the book Free Markets with Sustainability and Solidarity: Facing the Challenge.

Stefanie Lenway

Stefanie Lenway is the Dean of St. Thomas' Opus College of Business and holds the Opus Distinguished Chair. Previously she was the Dean of the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University and before that was the Dean of College of Business Administration of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to those positions she taught International Management at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, where she was the General Mills Professor of Strategic Management and Organization and Associate Dean, MBA Programs. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the co-author of Managing New Industry Creation: Global Knowledge Formation and Entrepreneurship in High Technology, a book about the corporate strategies and business history of the Flat Panel Display Industry (Stanford University Press, December, 2001). Professor Lenway was a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management (2001-2004), and a was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2001. She has served as chair of the Academy of Management's Social Issues in Management Division, as vice president, program chair of the Academy of International Business and as associate editor of the Journal of International Business Studies. Lenway's previous book was The Politics of U.S. International Trade Policy. She has written many academic articles on strategic management, politics, and economics for such journals as Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, and International Organization.

Rolando Medeiros

Rolando Medeiros is a Chilean business leader, Worldwide President of UNIAPAC (International Association of Christian Business Leaders). He has an extensive senior executive experience in Latin America (Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru), USA and China and in several business sectors (metallurgical and industrial manufacture, oil and gas, energy and power distribution, amongst others). He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Elecmetal S.A., an International Holding Corporation headquartered in Chile involved in well-diversified business sectors (mining supplies, glass containers, wine making and marketing, communications and media, energy generation, etc.) with sales over US$ 1 billion and is the Chairman of the Board of the US Delaware company ME Global Inc. and the Chinese corporation ME Elecmetal (China) Co. and Director of other Boards  in Chile, USA and China. He actively participates in business associations and chambers of industry and commerce and Non Profit Organizations (he is currently member of the Board of Fundación Arturo Lopez Perez, a foundations devoted to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer) and Education (he is member of the Labor Relations Council of the Catholic University of Chile). He was educated at the University of Chile and has post-graduate studies in Quantum Physics and Chemistry (Uppsala University, Sweden), Business Administration (University of Chile) and Philosophy (University Alberto Hurtado, Chile).

Percy Marquina

Percy Marquina, MBA, MIL, Mphil (BA), Dr. in Business Administration from Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands, and Dr. in Strategic Business Administration from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He is currently the Director General of CENTRUM Graduate Business School (accredited by AACSB, EQUIS, and AMBA), PUCP, Lima, Peru. He has completed the Executive Development Program at Wharton School of Business, United States, the Business Leadership Program at Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil. He has pursued specialized course studies at the World Bank, the UNDP, and Wilson Learning.  Professor Marquina has published over 10 research papers in reputed journals as Journal of Business Ethics and Journal of Consumer Marketing and published books with Pearson Prentice Hall and CENGAGE.

Michael Naughton

Michael Naughton is the director of the Center for Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas.  He holds the Koch Chair in Catholic Studies and is a full professor in the department of Catholic Studies.  Dr. Naughton is the co-author and co-editor of 9 books and over 50 articles.  He helped coordinate and write the Vocation of the Business Leader issued by the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development (formerly the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace), which has been translated into 18 languages.  His most recent co-authored book is Respect in Action: Applying Subsidiarity in Business.  He is also the co-author of Managing as if Faith Mattered.  

Dr. Naughton serves as board chair for Reell Precision Manufacturing, a global producer of innovative torque solutions for transportation, consumer electronics, medical and office automation products with offices in the U.S., Netherlands, and China.  

He is married to Teresa and has 5 children.  He received his Ph.D. in theology from Marquette University (1991) and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas (1995).

Joe Rothbauer

Joe Rothbauer is currently the Head of Asset Operations for Castleton Commodities International (CCI).  CCI is primarily an energy trading company which in addition purchases assets in the energy space.  Mr. Rothbauer leads the entire midstream and electric generation business for CCI.  These operations in the past 14 years have created 3 billion in cash to the owners.  Father of ten adopted children with ages from 2 to 45 years old.  Married to Rebecca for 35 years.  Involved with numerous not for profit organization such as the YMCA and IBLAC.  Graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a BS in Engineering and captained the 1980 Wisconsin Badger Football team.