Ben W. Heineman Jr.
Ben 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 the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, distinguished senior fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession and senior counsel to the law firm of Wilmer Hale.
A Rhodes Scholar, editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Ben was assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and practiced constitutional law prior to his service at GE. His new book, “High Performance with High Integrity,” was published in June 2008 by the Harvard Business Press.
Ben writes and lectures frequently on business, law and international affairs. He is also the author of several books on British race relations and the American presidency. In 2007, he served on the Independent Review Panel of the World Bank Group’s Department of Institutional Integrity (the Volcker Panel).
Ben is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Science, Technology and Law, and recipient of the American Lawyer’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award of Board Member Magazine. He serves on the boards of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Transparency International-USA. He also recently delivered the Oliver Smithies Lectures at Oxford University on the global anti-corruption agenda.