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Joel Lawrence Fleishman, a triple-degree holder from Carolina and founding director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy, will discuss “Ethics, Self-Interest and the Public Good” Oct. 11 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Fleishman will deliver the inaugural Thomas W. Lambeth Lectureship in Public Policy at 5:30 p.m. in Chapman Hall 211. The lecture is free to the public.

Fleishman is director of the Sanford Institute’s Heyman Center for Ethics, Public Policy and the Professions at Duke University. He previously served as a legal assistant to former N.C. Governor Terry Sanford, senior vice president of Duke University, president of Atlantic Philanthropies and chairman of the board of trustees of  the Urban Institute.

Fleishman earned bachelor’s, master’s and law degrees from Carolina, and a master’s degree in law from Yale University. He is a recipient of UNC’s Order of the Golden Fleece and the Distinguished Service Medal of the General Alumni Association.

Fleishman is the author of “The Foundation: A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World” (2007).

The Lambeth Lectureship, which honors 1957 UNC alumnus Thomas Willis Lambeth, was endowed in 2006 to bring to campus distinguished speakers who are practitioners and/or scholars of public policy.

For more information, contact Richard “Pete” Andrews, Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professor and chair of the department of public policy, (919) 843-5011, pete_andrews@unc.edu.

College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Spurr, (919) 962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu
News Services contact: Lisa Katz, (919) 962-2093, lisa_katz@unc.edu

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