Robert Phillips is an American associate Professor of Management and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law at the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business of the University of Richmond. He has also taught at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Shanghai, China, the University of San Diego, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Phillips was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and received a B.S. from Appalachian State University, an M.B.A. from the University of South Carolina, and a Ph.D. from Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia in 1997. He is known for his work on stakeholder theory and organizational ethics. His published work includes three books and dozens of scholarly articles several of which have been reprinted around the world in multiple languages. He is a Senior Fellow at the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, has been associate editor of Business & Society, a Representative-at-Large at the Strategic Management Society and is Past-President of the Society for Business Ethics. 

April 18th, 1968 in (Age 56)