Brian Nelson

Employer:	University of Maryland, Robert H, Smith School of Business (College Park, Maryland, USA) BA, MBA
Position:	Teaching Experience
Time period:	July 2008 - Present
Description:	As a “Tyser Teaching Fellow,” I teach a semester-long course in “Business Ethics and Society” for senior and juniors and a semester-long MBA course in “Corporate Social Responsibility.” I also teach a semester-long course, “Introduction to Business,” for freshman. In all of my upper-class and MBA courses, students are challenged to integrate legal, ethical and other “citizenship issues” (such as political, social and cultural issues) into strategic planning and implementation. Each upper-class and MBA course consists of 42 contact hours, individual in-class student presentations and writing assignments, small-group decision-making exercises and presentations, a mid-term examination and a final examination. Each of my upper-class and MBA sections has 40 students. My freshman sections also have 40 students each.

Employer:	RSM Erasmus (Rotterdam, NL) – MBA, Teva Pharmaceuticals In-Company MBA
Position:	Visiting Professor
Time period:	October 2006 - November 2008
Description:	As a Visiting Professor, I taught “Law and Ethics in Global Business: A Course in Executive Leadership,” as an elective course in RSM’s In-Company MBA Program for Teva Pharmaceuticals. This course ran each time for two months, with 18 contact hours during a three-day workshop in November 2006 and with 18 contact hours during a two-day workshop in November 2008. Classes have varied in size from 15 to 30 students. RSM’s Full-Time, Executive MBA and In-Company MBA programs are all ranked #9 in Europe by The Financial Times (as of 2006).

Employer:	American University (Washington, D.C., USA) – BA, MBA and MS in Accounting
Position:	Teaching Experience
Time period:	June 2005 - April 2008
Description:	As an Executive-in-Residence, I taught a semester-long course in “Global Corporate Citizenship” for the undergraduate and MBA programs at Kogod School of Business. I also taught a distance-learning course on “Business Ethics for Accountants” for an MS in Accounting which is compliant with Maryland’s initial CPA licensing requirement. In all of my courses, students are challenged to integrate legal, ethical and other “citizenship issues” (such as political, social and cultural issues) into strategic planning and implementation. Each course consists of 42 contact hours, individual in-class student presentations and writing assignments, small-group decision-making exercises and presentations, a mid-term examination and a final examination. Each of my three sections has 35 students. The distance-learning course has only 25 students and involves weekly online small-group sessions and class meetings. At the school’s request, I agreed to extend my initial one-year contract (2005-2006) to three years. I was invited to return for further years but declined in favor of an appointment to the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Employer:	The Australian National University (Canberra, Australia) – BA and Executive MBA
Position:	Visiting Professor
Time period:	February 2005 - May 2005
Description:	As a Visiting Professor, I gave guest lectures on corporate law, business law and business ethics to undergraduate and graduate business students and explored research interests with faculty. In 2005, the UK’s Times Higher Education Supplement ranked ANU as the 16th best university in the world on the basis of evaluations by 1,300 academics from 88 countries.

Employer:	TiasNimbas Business School (Tilburg, The Netherlands) – Part-time MBA
Position:	Instructor
Time period:	December 2004 - November 2007
Description:	As an Instructor, I taught “Business Law and Ethics,” as an elective course in TiasNimbas’ Part-time MBA program. This course ran for three days in early January with 15 contact hours, two writing assignments and about 20 students. TiasNimbas has renewed my appointment three times since my initial engagement.

Employer:	RSM Erasmus (Rotterdam, NL) – MBA, Schlumberger In-Company MBA
Position:	Visiting Professor
Time period:	September 2004 - November 2007
Description:	As a Visiting Professor, I taught “Law and Ethics in Global Business: A Course in Executive Leadership,” as an elective course in RSM’s In-Company MBA Program for Schlumberger. This course ran each time for two months, with 18 contact hours during a three-day workshop in October of each year. Each class had about 30 students. RSM’s In-Company MBA programs are ranked #9 in Europe by The Financial Times (as of 2006).

Employer:	ESSEC (Paris, France) – “Haute Ecole” and LLM
Position:	Visiting Professor
Time period:	September 2004 - November 2004
Description:	As a Visiting Professor I taught teach two semester-long courses: (1) “Comparative Legal Systems,” an course in ESSEC’s full-time “Haute Ecole” program in business, and (2) “Selected Topics in International Business Law,” a course for ESSEC’s masters program in “International Business Law.” Each course included 30 contact hours, individual writing assignments, small-group decision-making exercises, in-class student presentations and a final examination. Each class has about twenty students. ESSEC’s “Haute Ecole” program in business is ranked as the #6 European Masters in Management by The Financial Times (as of 2006).

Employer:	Manchester Business School Worldwide (Manchester, England; Singapore; and Jamaica) – Executive MBA
Position:	Visiting Fellow
Time period:	June 2003 - November 2003
Description:	As a Visiting Fellow, Course Director and Instructor, I taught “Law and Ethics in Global Business: A Course in Executive Leadership,” as an elective course in MBS-Worldwide’s Executive MBA program. This course runs for six months with 18 contact hours during a three-day workshop in August, two writing assignments, one group project and a final examination. The enrollment for my course has increased consistently over the four years from 15 to 45 students. Each section has 15-20 students. MBS has renewed my appointment six times since my initial engagement. The MBS program is ranked #7 in Europe by The Financial Times (as of 2006).

Employer:	ESSEC (Paris, France) – Executive MBA
Position:	Visiting Professor
Time period:	April 2003 - November 2004
Description:	As a Visiting Professor, I taught four one-day seminars on “International Business Law” and “Corporate Governance in the USA,” as part of ESSEC’s Executive MBA courses on “Managing the Global Enterprise” and “Comparative Corporate Governance.” This one-day course consists of 8 contact hours. Each class had about 30 students. ESSEC’s Executive MBA program is ranked #10 in Europe by The Financial Times (as of 2006).

Employer:	RSM Erasmus (Rotterdam, NL) – MBA and Executive MBA
Position:	Visiting Professor
Time period:	October 2002 - November 2004
Description:	As a Visiting Professor, I taught “Law and Ethics in Global Business: A Course in Executive Leadership,” as an elective course in RSM’s Full-Time MBA program. This course ran for two months with 18 contact hours over a two week period, one writing assignment, one oral presentation and a final examination. Classes were about 15 students in size. RSM’s Full-Time and Executive MBA programs are ranked #9 in Europe by The Financial Times (as of 2006).

Employer:	Purdue University (Indiana, USA) – BA
Position:	Visiting Assistant Professor
Time period:	July 2000 - November 2001
Description:	As a Visiting Assistant Professor, I taught four different undergraduate courses: business law, business ethics, introduction to business and introduction to economics for non-economists. In each of these courses, Each of my twelve courses consisted of 40 contact hours, for a total of 480 contact hours over the three semesters during which I taught undergraduate courses. Classes varied in size from 30 to 50 students.

Employer:	Purdue University (USA, The Netherlands, France, Germany and Hungary) – Executive MBAs
Position:	Visiting Assistant Professor
Time period:	December 1999 - November 2004
Description:	As a Visiting Assistant Professor, I taught a course on “law and ethics in global business” in four of Purdue’s Executive MBA programs, including (1) its Weekend Program (every three years), (2) its International Masters in Management (“IMM”), (3) its Executive MBA program in Germany, and (4) its Executive MBA in Food and Agribusiness. My course was a required double-course offered during the last module of Purdue’s Executive MBAs. Purdue classified my course as one of its "integrative" courses, in which students are challenged to incorporate a wide range of disciplines into business strategies. My course for Purdue ran for five months with 36 contact hours, two writing assignments, two group projects, a mid-term examination and final examination. Class sizes varied from 15 to 50 students. As part of my appointment at Purdue, I also taught at ESCP-EAP (France), GISMA (Germany) and Central European University (Hungary). Purdue consistently renewed my annual appointments four times, until the programs I taught were eliminated or consolidated. Purdue’s IMM program was ranked #11 in the world by The Financial Times (as of 2007).

Employer:	Great Lakes Chemical Corporation – West Lafayette, Indiana
Position:	Senior International Counsel & Assistant General Counsel
Time period:	November 1995 - November 1999
Description:	Enterprise Risk Management System. Global Intellectual Property Program (including Patents). Corporate Governance. General Counseling for World Headquarters. General Counseling for European Regional Headquarters. Global Acquisitions, Divestments and Joint Ventures, including two IPO “spin offs” and one hostile takeover.

Employer:	W. R. Grace & Co. - Boca Raton, Florida
Position:	International Counsel & Latin American Regional Counsel
Time period:	November 1991 - October 1995
Description:	Corporate Governance. General Counseling for World Headquarters. General Counseling for Latin American Regional Headquarters. Global Acquisitions, Divestments and Joint Ventures.

Employer:	Chicago, Illinois: Global Corporate Banking Facilities
Position:	Bank Counsel, Chapman and Cutler
Time period:	May 1990 - November 1991
Description:	Representative Clients. The Fuji Bank, Harris Bank, Westpac Banking Corporation and ABN AMRO.

Employer:	Winston & Strawn – Chicago, Illinois, and New York, New York
Position:	International Corporate Counsel and Bank Counsel
Time period:	October 1985 - April 1990
Description:	Corporate Finance Facilities. General Counseling for US Business Operations. Global Acquisitions, Divestments and Joint Ventures. Representative Clients: United Air Lines, Inc.; Beatrice Companies, Inc.; Abbott Laboratories, Inc.; National Westminster Bank USA; Heller Financial Corp.; Hutchinson SA; Societe Alsacienne de Supermarche SA.

Employer:	Kirkland & Ellis – Chicago, Illinois
Position:	International Corporate and U.S. Securities Counsel
Time period:	April 1984 - September 1985
Description:	International Business Operations. U.S. Securities Law. Representative Clients: Goldman Sachs, Northern Trust Company, General Motors Corporation and AL Laboratories AB.

Employer:	Linklaters DeBandt - Brussels, Belgium
Position:	American and European Law Counsel
Time period:	April 1981 - March 1984
Description:	Counseling Multinational Corporate Groups on their European and Belgian Operations. Counseling European Companies on Doing Business in the United States. Comparative Law Studies. Representative Clients: Commission for the European Union, Belgium, Mexico, General Motors Corp., FMC Corp., 3M Corp., Franklin Mints, Inc., and Grundig AG.

Employer:	Hanken School of Economics (Helsinki, Finland) – Part-time MBA
Position:	Instructor
Time period:	July 2008
Description:	As an Instructor, I taught a one-day seminar on “International Business Law” and “Corporate Governance,” as part of Hanken’s Part-time MBA course on “International Economic Institutions.” This one-day course consisted of 8 contact hours. The class had about 20 students.

Employer:	TiasNimbas Business School (Tilburg, The Netherlands) – Full-time MBA
Position:	Instructor
Time period:	March 2008
Description:	As an Instructor, I taught “Business Law and Ethics in Europe,” as a one-day module in TiasNimbas’ Full-time MBA program. This module was part of the course on “International Economic Institutions.” My module ran for one full day.

Employer:	John Marshall Law School (Chicago, USA) – LLM
Position:	Adjunct Professor
Time period:	January 2005
Description:	As an Adjunct Professor, I taught a course on “Effective Counseling for Global Corporations” for JMLS’s post-graduate program (LLM) in International Trade and Business Law. The course introduced practicing lawyers the skills necessary for advising corporations on how to integrate law into their worldwide business operations. The course consisted of fourteen contact hours, one individual writing assignment, one small-group exercise, in-class student presentations and a term paper of fifteen pages.

University:	Columbia University
Time period:	1981
Degree:	JD

University:	Harvard University
Time period:	1976
Degree:	BA

Papers:

Publications, Presentations & Research Brian L. Nelson, “The American National System of Corporate Governance,” a chapter in “Corporate Governance Around the World.” ed. Ahmed Naciri. April 2008. Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group (USA and UK). Brian L. Nelson, “Law and Ethics in Global Business: Integrating Law and Ethics into Corporate Governance around the World.” 312 pp. January 2006. Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group (USA and UK). Brian L. Nelson, “La Gouvernance Corporative aux Etats Unis,” 30 pp. (in French), a chapter in “La Gouvernance Corporative Internationale,” ed. Montreal International Centre for Corporate Governance. April 2006. Laval University Press (Canada). Brian L. Nelson, “Law and Ethics in Global Business: A Course in Executive Leadership.” 161 pp. January 2004. Business & Management Education Ltd. (UK). Brian L. Nelson, “Corporate Corruption, Corporate Governance and Executive Education” address at the plenary session of the 2002 Annual International Conference of the Executive MBA Council (Keystone, Colorado USA, October 23, 2002) (unpublished transcript available from Brian L. Nelson). Brian L. Nelson, “Buying and Selling Companies,” guest lecture at Purdue University’s Graduate School of Management (December 10, 1998). Brian L. Nelson, “International Business Negotiations” guest lecture at Purdue University’s Graduate School of Management (November 15, 1997). Brian L. Nelson, “Doing Business Successfully in Latin America: Lessons Learned from W. R. Grace & Co.,” address at the Forbes Conference on Latin American Markets (Miami, Florida USA, May 15, 1994). Brian L. Nelson, “The Fundamentals of U.S. Export Controls and Compliance Programs,” address at the 1993 Conference of W. R. Grace Worldwide Legal Counsel (Asheville, North Carolina, October 20, 1993). (unpublished manuscript on file with Brian L. Nelson). Brian L. Nelson, “The S.E.C.’ s ‘Waiver by Conduct’ Doctrine” (19 The International Lawyer 3 (Summer 1985). Brian L. Nelson, “Antitrust Regulation of Transatlantic Shipping by the USA and the EU,” (1984) (unpublished manuscript on file at Linklaters in Brussels, Belgium). Brian L. Nelson, “National Regulations affecting Multinational Corporate Cash Management Operations in six European countries (B, UK, NL, FR, GER, CH),” (1983) (unpublished manuscript on file at Linklaters in Brussels, Belgium). Brian L. Nelson, “Legal Measures for Combating Corruption Among Public Officials, a Comparative Study of Laws in Twenty Countries,” (1982) (unpublished manuscript on file at Linklaters in Brussels, Belgium). Brian L. Nelson, “Germany’s ‘Co-Determination’ and Peru’s ‘La Comunidad Industrial,’ two experiments in Worker Participation in Corporate Management and Ownership.” (1976) (unpublished B.A. Honors Thesis, Harvard U., on file at Widener Library).

Books:

January 2006: “Law and Ethics in Global Business: Integrating Law and Ethics into Corporate Governance around the World” by Brian L. Nelson. 312 pp. Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group (USA and UK). January 2004: “Law and Ethics in Global Business: A Course in Executive Leadership,” by Brian L. Nelson. 161 pp. Business & Management Education (UK). Chapters April 2008: “The American National System of Corporate Governance,” by Brian L. Nelson, a chapter in “Corporate Governance Around the World.” ed. Ahmed Naciri. Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group (USA and UK). April 2006: Brian L. Nelson, “La Gouvernance Corporative aux Etats Unis,” by Brian L. Nelson (translated into French), a chapter in “La Gouvernance Corporative Internationale,” ed. Montreal International Centre for Corporate Governance. Laval University Press (Canada).

Memberships:

Bar Memberships: New York (1982), Illinois (1984).