Thomas I. White is the Conrad N. Hilton Professor in Business Ethics and Director of the Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. Professor White received his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University and taught at Upsala College and Rider University in New Jersey before moving to California in 1994. He has also worked for more than twenty years as a consultant for a variety of Fortune 500 companies and the Ethics & Compliance Officer Association. Professor White is the author of five books (Right and Wrong, Discovering Philosophy, Business Ethics, Men and Women at Work and In Defense of Dolphins: The New Moral Frontier) and numerous articles on topics ranging from sixteenth-century Renaissance humanism to business ethics. His most recent work is the e-book: Socrates Comes to Wall Street: A (Post-meltdown) Dialogue on Business, Ethics and Leadership.

In addition to ethical issues in business, Professor Whites research also focuses on the philosophical implications — especially the ethical implications — of the scientific research on dolphins. Professor White’s book, In Defense of Dolphins, addresses the ethical issues connected with human/dolphin interaction — for example, the deaths and injuries of dolphins in connection with the human fishing industry and the captivity of dolphins in the entertainment industry. He is currently working on a book that extends the analysis of In Defense of Dolphins to orcas and the larger whales.

Professor White is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, served as U.S. Ambassador for the United Nations’ Year of the Dolphin program and is one of the authors of the “Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans: Whales and Dolphins.” He is also a Scientific Advisor to the Wild Dolphin Project, the research organization supporting Dr. Denise Herzing’s long-term study of a community of Atlantic spotted dolphins in the Bahamas.