Prof. Santoro is a Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School. 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.
Prof. Santoro’s first book Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China (Cornell, 2000) was widely praised in, among other places, in The New York Times Book Review and Foreign Affairs.
His next book, China 2020: How Western Business Can--and Should--Influence Social and Political Change was published by Cornell University Press on June 1, 2009.
Prof. Santoro is also co-editor (with Tom Gorrie, Corporate Vice President Government Affairs and Policy for Johnson & Johnson) of Ethics and the Pharmaceutical Industry (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
He is a member of the Editorial Board of Business Ethics Quarterly and the Journal of Human Rights.
Prof. Santoro has been an Adjunct Lecturer and a Teaching Fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where he taught ethics and economics courses. As a Research Associate at Harvard Business School, he wrote or co-authored nearly thirty case studies and teaching notes on ethical and legal topics. He was an invited speaker at the American Bar Association Conference on Professionalism in the 21st Century. He was the recipient of research grant from the Aspen Institute’s Initiative for Social Innovation through Business. He has also served as a GE Teaching Fellow at Rutgers Business School.
Prof. Santoro testified before the United States Senate Finance Committee on the human rights implications of China’s entry into the World Trade Organization. He is a frequent featured speaker on human rights and business ethics at numerous venues, including Cornell, Columbia, Oberlin, Princeton, Redlands, Santa Clara, and Tufts , as well as at the Brookings Institution, the Economic Strategy Institute, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Asia Society.
Prof. Santoro was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Hong Kong during the 1993-94 academic year and he travels frequently to Asia. In the summers, he has taught an executive MBA courses in Business Strategy for China’s State-Owned Enterprises and Chinese Business Law in Beijing and Shanghai.
Prior to entering academe, Prof. Santoro practiced law. During law school he was a clerk at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom. He was summer associate at Shearman & Sterling and an associate at Webster & Sheffield. He has been the General Counsel of BioTechnica International in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the first publicly-held biotechnology companies, and of Finevest (now Interlaken Capital) in Greenwich, Connecticut, a privately held venture firm.
