Christopher Michaelson is the David A. and Barbara Koch (pronounced “coach”—no relation to the political donor) distinguished professor of business ethics and social responsibility at the University of St. Thomas in the Opus College of Business and a fellow with the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions in the School of Law.
He teaches the foundational course in compliance programming in the Organizational Ethics & Compliance Program at St. Thomas, is on the faculty steering committee, and was a founding faculty member of the program, one of the first degree programs of its kind. He is also an adjunct professor with the New York University Stern School of Business and a part-time advisory director for PwC—a relationship he continues to maintain, keeping a foot in both the academic and the practicing world.
