ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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Kenneth W. Johnson is a researcher, writer, and consultant in the field of inte-
grating ethics and policy. He is founder and director of the Ethics & Policy
Integration Centre, an ethics and policy research Web site available at
http://www.EPIC-online.net. He specializes in a systems approach to organiza-
tion and community design, development, and strategic planning. He consults
internationally with organizations of all sorts and sizes, including transnational
businesses, international labor, and state and federal government agencies. He is
coordinator for the Coalition for Ethics and Compliance Initiatives and a mem-
ber of the State Bar of California, the American Evaluation Association, and the
Society for Business Ethics. He has been an editor of the Arizona Law Review;
associate aditor of the newsletter, Ethical Management; and a senior fellow of the
Ethics Resource Center Fellows Program. He can be reached at (202) 547-1789 or
at kenneth@ethics-policy.org.
Igor Y. Abramov is director of the Good Governance Program in the Inter-
national Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. He advises
both U.S. businesses and the U.S. government on good governance, rule of law,
trade, investment, and market access issues. He plans, manages, and implements
a Good Governance Program to enhance rule of law-based business environ-
ments in Eastern Europe, Russia and Independent States, as well as in Latin
America. Before joining the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1997,
Mr. Abramov practiced law and international consulting in San Francisco,
California. A member of the California State Bar, he earned a B.A. from
Columbia University (1984) and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law
Center (1987). He was a founding member and editor of the Georgetown Journal
of Legal Ethics and an associate editor of the National Jewish Law Review. He can
be reached at (202) 482-1832 or at Igor_Abramov@ita.doc.gov.