Ronald M. Green
John Phillips Professor of Religion
Director of Dartmouth Institute for the
Study of Applied and Professional Ethics
Ronald M. Green is the author of over eighty articles and five books in the fields of ethical theory, religious ethics, and applied ethics, including medical ethics and business ethics. His most recent books include Religion and Moral Reason (Oxford, 1988) and The Ethical Manager (Macmillan, 1994). Professor Green has a special interest in issues of methods in applied ethics. During 1994 he served as a member of the National Institutes of Health Human Embryo Research Panel and collaborated in the writing of the Panel's Report providing guidelines for all future federally funded research on the human embryo. From February 1996 through June of 1997, he served as a consultant to the NIH's National Institute for Human Genome Research, where he aided in the establishment the Office of Genome Ethics. Professor Green is as a member of the Bioethics Committee of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation.
Professor Green is Vice President of the Society of Christian Ethics and will assume the presidency of the Society in 1998. In 1995 he was elected to a three year term as Secretary of the American Academy of Religion, the largest professional association of religion educators in higher education. He is a member of the Society of Business Ethics, a Fellow of the Business Enterprise Trust, and a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Religious Ethics, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and The Business Ethics Quarterly.
Professor Green is a recipient of the Dartmouth Distinguished Teaching Award. This award is given annually to a single member of the faculty based on a vote of the entire senior class.