(born September 27, 1954) is an American priest of the Catholic Church who was president of Loyola University New Orleans from 2004 to 2018.
[5][6] On April 10, 2006, President Wildes unveiled Pathways - Toward Our Second Century, Loyola's strategic plan in response to the university's 15 million dollar budget deficit following Hurricane Katrina.
[9] As an author, he has published numerous works on ethics and morality, especially in the field of bioethics which he has lectured widely on.
[10] He has been called upon to give analysis on bioethics issues on nightly talk shows in Washington, and on July 22, 1997 to testify before the House Committee on Sciences on the topic of human cloning.
[11] He is Associate Director and a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and frequent contributor to its journal.