Ronald Berenbeim, Business Ethics Researcher of The Conference Board, Receives Fulbright Award

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Mar 11, 2010, 11:00 ET

NEW YORK, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Ronald E. Berenbeim, principal researcher, business ethics, of The Conference Board, has been selected for a Fulbright Teaching Specialist Award to teach at the School of Law, University of Cergy-Pontoise during March and April, according to The Conference Board. The award is bestowed by the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Fund.

Berenbeim will teach two four week business ethics seminars – one to Law and the other to Master of Law students. In addition, he will provide advice on meetings, general programs, and curriculum development.

Berenbeim, an authority on business ethics and corporate governance issues, has authored 44 studies for The Conference Board, most recently Working at the Intersection of Human Resources, Ethics, and Compliance — the Need for Collaboration in October.

He is one of over 400 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad this year through the Fulbright Specialists Program. This program, created in 2000 to complement the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program, provides short-term academic opportunities to prominent U.S. faculty and professionals to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at post secondary, academic institutions around the world.

"Receiving a Fulbright award is a great honor," says Jon Spector, CEO of The Conference Board. "Ron has focused on ethics research for more than two decades, and over this long period has made significant contributions to the thinking in the field. I, along with the entire The Conference Board, want to congratulate Ron on this significant career achievement."

The Fulbright Program, America's flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over its 60 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have taught, studied or conducted research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the United States. More than 285,000 emerging leaders in their professional fields have received Fulbright awards, including individuals who later became heads of government, Nobel Prize winners, and leaders in education, business, journalism, the arts, and other fields.

Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement.

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