EBEN's Executive Committee (ExCom) consists of 6 voted members. The administrative manager is appointed by ExCom.

• Prof. Alejo Sison, president
• Prof. dr. Luc Van Liedekerke
• Prof. Michael Assländer
• Anthony E. Gortzis
• Dr. Thomas Maak
• Herman Siebens

Alejo José G. Sison is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Navarre. He is likewise Senior Fellow at the Institute for Enterprise and Humanism and the Center for Business and Society at IESE.

 

He works on issues where ethics overlaps with economics, business and politics and analyzes them preferentially from a virtue perspective. His latest publications include "The Moral Capital of Leaders. Why Virtue Matters" (Edward Elgar 2003), which has been translated into Spanish and Chinese, and "Corporate Governance and Ethics. An Aristotelian Perspective" (Edward Elgar 2008).

 

An EBEN Executive Committee Member since 2006, he became President in the 2009 Annual Conference in Athens.

Luc Van Liedekerke is professor of business ethics at the universities of Leuven and Antwerp. He is director of the Centre for Economics and Ethics (K.U.Leuven) and of the Centre for Ethics (University Antwerp). He is also chairman of the register committee of Ethibel/Stock at Stake (Brussels), an organization specialized in ethical screening of companies.

He studied philosophy and economics both at the K.U.Leuven and holds a PhD in philosophy and an MsC in Economics. He has published among other things Explorations in financial ethics, Peeters, Leuven,(2000) and Business en Ethiek: spelregels voor ethisch ondernemen, Lannoo, (2002). He teaches regularly at business schools in Belgium and abroad. He is also the organizer of an annual chair in business ethics with lectures at the universities of Leuven and Antwerpen and held the Rector Dhanis chair at the University of Antwerp.

He was president of the European Business Ethics Network from 2005 till 2009.

Michael S. Aßländer holds the Plansecur endowed chair for business ethics at the University of Kassel. He is deputy chairman of the German Business Ethics Network and of the Austrian Business Ethics Network and chief editor of the Journal “Forum Wirtschaftsethik”, edited by the German Business Ethics Network.

 

He studied management, economics, philosophy, psychology, social sciences and Russian language in Bamberg, Vienna, Bochum and Moscow. He holds a Diploma in Management, a PhD and a doctor’s degree in social sciences. Michael has taught philosophy and business ethics at colleges and universities in Bamberg, Coburg, Nürnberg, Zittau and Eichstätt and held business ethics lectures for executives at the SAP Business School in Vienna and at the European Humanities University in Minsk. He is member of the scientific advisory board of the “ZfWU”, the leading German journal in business ethics and organizer of various conferences upon the topic of business ethics.

 

His philosophical research focuses on historical aspects in social sciences and economics, Scottish enlightenment, and applied ethics. In business ethics the actual research includes theoretical and practical aspects of CSR as well as managerial behaviour. He has published among other things an introduction to Adam Smith (2007), and a socio-philosophical investigation about the history of labour (2006).

Born in Athens, he studied Economics and Law in the University of Athens. He completed his postgraduate studies in England, concentrating in Business Administration (MBA), Marketing and Econometrics.  He also attended a crash course MBA in Harvard University. 

 

 

Ηe was hired in the Marketing Department of UNILEVER. He worked in the Marketing Department of UNILEVER in London, as Marketing Specialist on detergents for Europe and North America.  He became Marketing Director for Unilever detergents in Greece. In 1986, he became as Marketing Director of ELAIS-UNILEVER FOODS DIVISION, and 1998, he became Public affairs, Media and Research Director for all UNILEVER(LEVER-ALGIDA-ELAIS) companies in Greece.

 

Other than that, he was President of the Greek Institute of Marketing since 1994, and member of the Board of the Greek Advertisers Association, and since March 1996, he holds the presidency.

In 2000, he was elected President of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA).

 

In 2003 he was elected as the General Secretary of the Board, of Chambers of Commerce for Piraeus.  Since the beginning of year 2003 he is active (consultant) in the area of Media, Marketing and Public Relation, Public Affairs, CSR, Crisis Management, and he is the Chairman of ONE-TEAM SA, and REPUTATION CAPITAL, CSR, marketing and communication companies.

 

In April 2005 he was elected as Vice-President of the Hellenic Management Association and since May 2005, he is acting as the President of the EBEN.GR (Business Ethics Institute). In July 2007 he was elected as a member of the board of the ACTION-AID. In February 2008 he was elected as a president of the board for SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR CITIZENS.

 

He has a daughter and a son.

Thomas Maak is currently Research Director at the Institute for Business Ethics at St. Gallen, Switserland, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD (France). He held visiting positions at the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York and at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in Washington, DC.

Thomas received a M.Sc.B.A. from the University of Bayreuth (Germany) and holds a summa cum laude-Ph.D. from the University of St. Gallen. During the last ten years he has taught students and executives on business ethics, philosophy, management and accounting at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), INSEAD, WHU Koblenz, Swiss Banking School, Technical University of Dresden and University of Zurich. While most of his teaching focuses on business ethics, he also teaches marketing, finance and strategic management in a required general management case study course at the University of St. Gallen.

His business ethics research focuses on integrity management, responsible leadership and corporate character. He has published over 30 articles and book chapters and (co-) authored four books. Thomas is currently working on two major research projects, (1) the development a business ethics manual for organizations, entitled “Integrity Tools” and endowed by the Gebert Ruef Foundation; (2) “Developing responsible leaders for sustainable business” with PricewaterhouseCoopers and INSEAD. Contact:

Herman Siebens (1958) has a lot of experience in teaching business ethics. As a teacher he created a methodology, based on the stakeholder-approach, to analyse cases. He founded the Flemish Network for Business Ethics in 1993. On the European level he is a member of EBEN since 1992. In 2002 he is elected as member of the executive committee, in which he now is the honorary secretary. He presented papers on several occasions, in and outside EBEN. He published several books, most of them in Dutch, and articles, some of them in English.

Degrees: - Master's degree business ethics at Catholic Univeristy of Louvain, Belgium, 1996, with prof. Johan Verstraeten as promoter (topic: stress at work) - Working on a PhD about ethics in school management - Certificate School Principal Professional activities: - Teacher in business ethics for about 15 years - Professional activity today: principal of the Royal Technical Atheneum of Wemmel (near to Brussels) - Author Contact: