Board of Directors
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Jonathan Haidt, Chair
Show MoreJonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His academic specialization is the psychology of morality and the moral emotions. Dr. Haidt is the author of three books: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2006), The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012), and The Coddling of the American Mind (2018). He was named one of the “top global thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine, and one of the “top world thinkers” by Prospect magazine.
Dr. Haidt earned a BA in philosophy from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. He then studied cultural psychology at the University of Chicago as a post-doctoral fellow. In 1995, Haidt was hired as an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, where he worked until 2011, winning four awards for teaching, including a statewide award conferred by the Governor of Virginia. In 2011, Haidt moved to the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. His research applies moral psychology to business ethics.
In 2013, he co-founded Ethical Systems, a non-profit collaboration dedicated to making academic research on ethics widely available to businesses. In 2015, Haidt co-founded Heterodox Academy.
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Steven Laub, Treasurer
Steven Laub has served in executive management and board positions in public and private semiconductor corporations including as President, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of Atmel Corporation; President and Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Image, Inc; and President of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation. He currently serves as a Board member of Rambus Corporation, a public semiconductor corporation based in Silicon Valley. Prior to his career in the semiconductor industry, Mr. Laub served as a Vice President and Partner at Bain and Company.
Mr. Laub is also devoted to the education field. He is on the Board of Visitors for the UCLA Economics Department and was previously a board member at Design Tech High School, a Charter School in Redwood Shores, CA.
Mr. Laub earned a B.A. in Economics from UCLA and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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Tony Banout
Tony is a national expert in one of the most pressing issues of our time: building a thriving democracy out of deep difference on fundamental religious and philosophical grounds. Serving as the Senior Vice President of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), he sees the American experiment of e pluribus unum as a lifelong vocation, which he approaches civically, academically, and in his professional work. Tony has written widely for academic and public consumption and is a frequent public speaker and moderator. He holds a doctorate in Religious Ethics from the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, where he was a Martin Marty Center and Provost fellow. A dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker, he was raised in an immigrant household steeped in the Coptic Orthodox church and absorbed both Roman Catholic and Islamic influences.
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Jeffrey S. Flier
Show MoreDr. Jeffrey S. Flier, MD is a distinguished endocrinologist, researcher, and leader in academic medicine. Dr. Flier served as the 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Harvard University from 2007 to 2016. Dr. Flier is an authority on diabetes and obesity and is the Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and the Higginson Professor of Physiology and Medicine. He has recently written on issues of broad importance to the academy and health professions, including the future of medicine and the health care workforce, and challenges to the ecosystem of biomedical research.
Dr. Flier received a BS from City College New York and an MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. As an author of over 300 scholarly papers, he is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, and in 2005 received the Banting Medal, the highest scientific honor granted by the American Diabetes Association.
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Kathleen O’Connor
Kathleen O’Connor serves as Vice President within the Legal Department at AQR Capital Management, a global investment management firm. In this role, Kathleen focuses on regulatory and political work, in coordination with the firm’s legal and government and regulatory affairs functions.
Prior to joining AQR, Ms. O’Connor was a Principal with Saoi, Ltd., and over her career has also held a variety of private- and public-sector legal roles.
Ms. O’Connor earned a B.A. in history from Georgetown University, an M.S. from University College London and a J.D. from Fordham University.
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Kate Stith
Show MoreKate Stith is the Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches and publishes primarily in the areas of Criminal Law and Constitutional Law. Before joining the faculty at Yale, Kate was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. She had also served as an economist with the Council of Economic Advisers and as a special assistant to the chief of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. Kate is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Law School, and was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White.
Kate is the author of many law review articles, and is co-author of several books and monographs including Campus Speech in Crisis (Encounter Books, 2016) (with J.A. Cabranes); Defining Federal Crimes (Aspen Press, 2nd ed. 2019) (with D.R. Richman); Fear of Judging (U. of Chicago Press, 1998) (with J.A. Cabranes); and The Dartmouth College Case and the Enduring Significance of Self-Governance (Dartmouth College, 1995).
