Organizational Ethics and Moral Integrity in Secular Societies: The Ethics of Bureaucracies

Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., is a University Professor at St. Joseph's University Philadelphia, PA. He joined the faculty at St. Joseph's after completing fourteen years of service as the sixteenth president of Loyola University New Orleans.

Wildes entered the Society of Jesus in 1976 after graduating from St. Joseph's University. He holds advanced degrees in theology and in philosophy. He received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 1993 and his professional work is in the field of bioethics, a field in which he has published and lectured extensively.

Wildes has delivered a number of invited lectures and papers and has written widely on bioethics and public policy authoring over sixty referred articles. He authored Moral Acquaintances: Methodology in Bioethics published by the University of Notre Dame Press (2000), and is the editor or co-editor of four other books. He has lectured at Tulane University School of Medicine, LSU Medical School, and given grand rounds for the Ochsner Clinic Foundation. He has delivered over ninety invited lectures on bioethics, medicine, and health care policy. Currently he is developing a new book on organizational ethics in health care.

He has also served as associate editor to and on the editorial board of a number of ethics and medicine journals and book series, and he is a founding editor of the Journal of Christian Bioethics. Prior to becoming President of Loyola University, Wildes was a member of the Department of Philosophy and a Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University where he also held a secondary appointment in the Department of Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Wildes has served as a trustee of seven colleges and universities. He is currently a member of the Boards of Trustees of Rockhurst University in Kansas City and a Trustee of Mount Saint Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. While in New Orleans, he was an active member of the New Orleans community and a leader in the post-Katrina recovery. He served on the board of GNO, Inc., which spearheads economic development for the ten-parish Greater New Orleans region. He was a member of the New Orleans Business Council and he served as Chair of the Board of Directors of Friends of New Orleans a national post-Katrina recovery organization. He was the founding Chair of the Ethics Review Board for the City of New Orleans. The ERB, created post Katrina, oversees the Office of the Inspector General for the city of New Orleans. He has served as a Commissioner of the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad in 2010 and 2011 where he helped reorganize the governance of the Railroad. In July 2011, he was appointed to serve on the New Orleans Civil Service Commission. While serving on the Commission he was elected to Chair the Commission and he held that position until 2014 when he stepped down. During that time, he shepherded a major reform of the New OrleansCivil Service system.

Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J. 是賓夕法尼亞州費城聖約瑟夫大學的大學教授。在擔任洛約拉大學新奧爾良的第十六任校長十四年後，他加入了聖約瑟夫大學的教職。

Wildes 於1976年在聖約瑟夫大學畢業後進入耶穌會。他擁有神學和哲學的高級學位。他於1993年在萊斯大學獲得博士學位，並在生物倫理學領域進行專業工作，該領域他已廣泛發表和講授。

Wildes 曾多次受邀演講並發表論文，並在生物倫理學和公共政策方面廣泛著作，撰寫了超過六十篇經過審核的文章。他著作了《道德認識：生物倫理學的方法論》，由聖母大學出版社於2000年出版，並擔任其他四本書的編輯或共同編輯。他曾在杜蘭大學醫學院、路易斯安那州立大學醫學院講授課程，並為奧克斯納診所基金會進行過大範圍的演講。他在生物倫理學、醫學和醫療政策方面發表了超過九十場受邀演講。目前，他正在撰寫一本關於醫療組織倫理的新書。

他還擔任多本倫理學和醫學期刊及書籍系列的副編輯和編輯委員會成員，並且是《基督教生物倫理學期刊》的創始編輯。在成為洛約拉大學校長之前，Wildes 是喬治城大學哲學系的成員，並在喬治城大學倫理學肯尼迪研究所擔任高級研究學者，還在喬治城大學醫學院的醫學系擔任副職。

Wildes 曾擔任七所大學的受託人。目前，他是堪薩斯城洛克赫斯特大學董事會成員，以及馬里蘭州埃米茨堡的聖瑪麗山大學的受託人。在新奧爾良期間，他是當地社區的活躍成員，並在卡特里娜颶風後的重建中擔任領導角色。他曾在 GNO, Inc. 的董事會任職，該機構負責推動大新奧爾良地區的經濟發展。他是新奧爾良商業委員會的成員，並擔任全國性卡特里娜颶風後重建組織「新奧爾良之友」的董事會主席。他是新奧爾良市倫理審查委員會的創始主席。該委員會於卡特里娜颶風後成立，負責監督新奧爾良市的檢查總署。他於2010年和2011年擔任新奧爾良公共帶鐵路的專員，協助重組鐵路的治理。2011年7月，他被任命為新奧爾良公務委員會的成員。在擔任委員會成員期間，他當選為委員會主席，並一直擔任該職位直到2014年卸任。在此期間，他推動了新奧爾良公務系統的重大改革。