[2] They include professors, graduate students, and undergraduates, journalists, physicians, lawyers, psychologists from many educational institutions and governments throughout the world.
Thompson worked with Bok, and subsequent Harvard Presidents Neil Rudenstine and Lawrence Summers to raise funds to support the program which now has an endowment of more than $55 million.
Twenty years later Bok observed that "one of the best new developments in professional education is the wide and growing interest in resolving problems of ethics.
"[7] When Thompson stepped down, Lawrence Lessig, a scholar of Internet law at Stanford was appointed to lead the center.
In 2011, the center announced a partnership with InnoCentive "seeking innovative systems to monitor institutions for potential signs of corrupting forces.
[12] In July 2023, Beerbohm was appointed director of the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, replacing Danielle Allen, who served in this position from 2015.
Berggruen Fellows engage in scholarship of broad social and political importance from cross-cultural perspectives, and demonstrate a commitment to the public dissemination of their ideas.