Michael A. Santoro is a world-renowned business ethics teacher, scholar and consultant. He is a Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.

Prof. Santoro is a founding Co-Editor of the Business and Human Rights Journal (Cambridge University Press) and founding President of the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association. He also serves on the editorial boards of Business Ethics Quarterly and the Journal of Human Rights and on the advisory panel of the Columbia University Business and Human Rights Teaching Forum.

He is the author of five books: A China Business Primer: Ethics, Culture, and Relationships by Michael A. Santoro and and Robert Shanklin (Routledge Press, 2021); Wall Street Values: Business Ethics and the Global Financial Crisis by Michael A. Santoro and Ronald J. Strauss (Cambridge University Press, 2013); China 2020: How Western Business Can–and Should–Influence Social and Political Change in the Coming Decade (Cornell University Press, 2009); Ethics and the Pharmaceutical Industry, Michael A. Santoro and Thomas M. Gorrie, Editors (Cambridge University Press 2005); and Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human  Rights in China (Cornell University Press, 2000).

He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University, a J.D. from New York University, and an A.B. from Oberlin College and was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Hong Kong.

He who exercises power by means of his virtue may be compared to the north star, which keeps its place while all the other stars revolve around it. – Confucius