"Ethisphere is an influential beacon for both good companies, aspirants and laggards alike. Ethisphere uniquely recognizes that even companies with less than perfect historical corporate citizenship operating records need to have their successes celebrated along the way if they decide to conscientiously improve their ethics, compliance and community practices. Anything else would simply build those companies’ resistance to productive engagement with third parties. It’s this sort of pragmatic approach that actually delivers Ethisphere’s power to influence, and help make and retain these companies as productive members of the corporate citizenship community."

The research-based Ethisphere® Institute is a leading international think-tank dedicated to the creation, advancement and sharing of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability. Ethisphere Magazine, which publishes the globally recognized World’s Most Ethical Companies Ranking™, is the quarterly publication of the Institute. Ethisphere provides the only third-party verifications of compliance [...]

The Joint Committee was formed to promote ethics and compliance thought leadership and education as a means of elevating the dialogue on these topics in the corporate and government sectors.

Ethisphere is the latest in a series of organizations founded and/or nurtured by Alex Brigham, a well respected voice in the ethics and compliance field. Alex has had a long history of incubating organizations that help advance the industry of business ethics through aiding in public education and developing of publicly-available best practices standards, benchmarks and frameworks that companies can openly and freely use to learn, compare and improve themselves.

Alex Brigham -- Executive Director, Ethisphere Institute; President and CEO, Corpedia, Inc.
Stefan Linssen -- Editor-in-Chief, Ethisphere Magazine
Tyler Van de Water -- Managing Director, Ethisphere Institute
Jonathan Whitacre -- Managing Director, Ethisphere Institute
Erin Fullerton -- Director of Marketing, Ethisphere Institute
Robert Leffel -- Associate Director, Ethisphere Institute; Writer, Corpedia, Inc.

Ethisphere is extremely sensitive to avoiding conflicts of interest and has strict policies and procedures in place to prevent any actual or perceived conflicts of interest.

The research-based Ethisphere Institute and associated membership group, the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), are supported by more than 100 institutions and corporations, including various partners and thought leaders. So who exactly are the Ethisphere Institute's partners?