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William K. Black
Professor Black has a Ph.D. in criminology, law, and society from the University of California at Irvine and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

His professional background includes appointments as senior deputy chief counsel for the San Francisco Office of Thrift Supervision; deputy director of the National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement; general counsel for the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco; and director of litigation for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Washington, D.C.

He has also served as adjunct professor of law at the Santa Clara University School of Law, regents' lecturer at the University of California at Irvine, and guest lecturer at the Stanford Business School.

Professor Black's research and writing deal with criminal justice policy issues such as white-collar crime, savings and loan industry reform, and financial services regulation. He has offered extensive testimony before the U.S. Congress and the California Assembly on issues related to financial services regulation, white collar crime, and the ethics investigations of former Speaker of the House James Wright and the "Keating Five."

Shama Gamkhar
Professor Gamkhar has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland at College Park.

A native of India, she has a master's degree in the philosophy of economics from the University of Delhi and a master of arts in economics from the University of Bombay.

She has written on a variety of topics, including the state and local response to federal grant reductions in the United States and the performance of the Indian economy. From 1993 to 1995 she was an instructor of macroeconomics and microeconomics at the University of Maryland.

This year Professor Gamkhar codirected a policy research project on state and local debt management in Texas and taught courses in public financial management.

Among her recent publications is "Asymmetries in the Response to Increases and Decreases in Intergovernmental Grants: A Comment and Some Further Evidence," coauthored with Wallace Oates. The article appeared in the December 1996 issue of National Tax Journal.

Aditi Gowri
Professor Gowri has a Ph.D. in social ethics from the University of Southern California and two master's degrees--an M.A. in ethics and public policy from the University of Southern California and an M.A. in interdisciplinary studies from York University.

Her principal fields of study are ethics and public policy; medical and business ethics; sociology of knowledge (science and religion); science, culture, and values; and the history of mathematics.

Recent articles include "Towards a Moral Ecology: What is the Relationship between Collective and Human Agents?," which will appear in Social Epistemology and "Speech and Spending: Corporate Political Speech Rights under the First Amendment," to be published in the Journal of Business Ethics.

This year she taught policy development courses and two seminars, one entitled "Moral Action within Organizations" and another on health, ethics, and policy.