Ben W HeinemanBen W. Heineman,
Jr., was GE's Senior Vice President-General Counsel from 1987-2003 and then
Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs from 2004 until his retirement
at the end of 2005. He is currently Senior Fellow at Harvard Law Scool's
Program on the Legal Profession and its Program on Corporate Governance, Senior
Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy
School of Government, and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. A Rhodes Scholar,
editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, and law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Mr.
Heineman was assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the U.S.
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and practiced public interest law and
constitutional law prior to his service at GE. His book, High Performance with High Integrity, was published in June 2008 by the Harvard Business Press. He writes and
lectures frequently on business, law, public policy, and international affairs.
He is also the author of books on British race relations and the American
presidency.

He is a member of
the American Philosophical Society; a fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences; a member of the Presidents' Circle of the National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; and a former member of the National
Academy of Science's Committee on Science, Technology, and Law. He is recipient
of The American Lawyer magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award
of Corporate Counsel magazine, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of Board Member magazine. He was named
one of the Top 50 Innovators in Law in the Past 50 Years by The American Lawyer, one of America's 100 most influential lawyers by the National Law Journal, one of the 100 most influential individuals on business ethics by Ethisphere magazine, and one
of the 100 most influential people in corporate governance by the National
Association of Corporate Directors. He serves on the boards of Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Central European
University, and Transparency International- USA. He is a graduate of Harvard
College (BA-History), Oxford University (B.Litt--Political Sociology), and Yale
Law School (JD).

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