Prof. Chip Pitts is Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, Professorial Lecturer, Oxford University,
Professorial Fellow, SMU Law Institute of the Americas, and Professor/Visiting Professor at other leading
universities in the East and West where he teaches Corporate Social Responsibility, Business and Human
Rights, Sustainability, Leadership, and Good Governance. Formerly a professor at Southern Methodist
University Law School, he has high-level executive (Chief Legal Officer, CEO) or nonexecutive (advisor,
board director or chair) leadership experience with numerous professional, for-profit, and non-profit boards,
organizations, and multistakeholder initiatives ranging from Amnesty International USA to Fairtrade
International. Frequent delegate and expert for UN conferences and initiatives, and UN Global Compact
Advisor and leader since inception of its Good Practice Notes Project, his current Advisory Board service
includes the ABA Center for Human Rights Business & Human Rights Project and the Business and Human
Rights Resource Centre. Co-Author of numerous scholarly articles and a pioneering textbook in the field,
Corporate Social Responsibility: A Legal Analysis (2009), Pitts has helped shape the field as teacher, author,
and norm entrepreneur for the last three decades.