Deadlines
Partners in Business Ethics Symposium
Panelists & Participants
Gretchen A. Winter
Gretchen A. Winter, J.D. is Executive Director of the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society and Clinical Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received a Dean’s Impact Award for outstanding contributions to the Gies College of Business including her work with Business 101: An Introduction to Professional Responsibility, a class that builds ethical decision-making habits for all incoming students in Gies. She teaches BADM 340, an elective course that delves more deeply into professional responsibility and ethical dilemmas students are likely to face in business settings, and law classes that introduce JD and master’s students to organizational ethics and compliance programs. She is coordinating the “Business Ethics Pioneers” project, a series of interviews with academics and practitioners who founded the field.
Ms. Winter is an Adjunct Professor in the University of Illinois College of Law and the Grainger College of Engineering City Scholars Program. She is a Visiting Professor at the CY Cergy Paris Universite School of Law and faculty for Practising Law Institute, Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, and Ethics and Compliance Initiative educational programs. She is on the editorial advisory board of Ethikos.
Ms. Winter chairs the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl ® Committee and serves on the APPE Board. She also chaired the APPE Executive Board, the Leadership Fellows Association of Leadership Greater Chicago, and the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association Board of Directors. She chaired and later served as Program Director for The Conference Board’s Global Business Conduct Council.
Prior to joining the Center, she worked at Baxter International Inc. in a variety of roles, including more than a decade as Vice President and Counsel, Business Practices. In that role, she developed and implemented the company's global ethics program. Ms. Winter also practiced law with the firm of Seyfarth, Shaw. Before law school, she worked as staff for the State of Illinois General Assembly and later was elected to the Illinois Legislative Staff Hall of Fame.
Ms. Winter received her J.D. from the University of Chicago and her bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago.