Corporate Governance Institute
SDSU College of Business
5500 Campanile Dr
San Diego, CA 92182-8238
Phone: (619) 594-0823
Fax: (619) 594-3272
corporate.governance@sdsu.edu

Lori Verstegen Ryan, Ph.D.
Director, Corporate Governance Institute
Associate Professor Management

Lori Ryan is an associate professor of Management who specializes in corporate governance and business ethics. As Director of the Corporate Governance Institute, she was invited to report on the State of Corporate Governance in North America at the 2004 World Congress of the International Society for Business, Economics, and Ethics in Melbourne, Australia. She was also invited to report on current trends in corporate governance at Loyola University New Orleans in April 2006 and at the “Business Ethics in the Corporate Governance Era” conference in Seattle in June 2006. She is on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review and Business Ethics Quarterly, and is President of the International Association for Business and Society.

Ryan's research focuses primarily on the intersection of ethics and corporate governance, with a special emphasis on the roles, characteristics, and responsibilities of institutional and individual investors. Her work has appeared in such journals as Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Business Ethics Quarterly, Business & Society, Educational & Psychological Measurement and Corporate Governance: An International Review. In addition to an M.B.A. from the University of Puget Sound, she received her M.A. in Philosophy and Ph.D. in Business Administration - Management from the University of Washington.