David Nitkin

EthicScan Canada President

David Nitkin portrait

Ethics Audits	X	Research		Presentation
Code of Ethics	X	Benchmarking		Organizational Reviews	X
Ethics Training	X	Ethical Investing	X	Partnerships

David is a rare breed in Canada: a full-time corporate ethicist. He does original writing, teaching, consulting and research on corporate social accountability, ethics auditing, and enhancing ethical management. Mr Nitkin is

President of EthicScan Canada, Canada's oldest, fee-for-service, full-service ethics consultancy
President of the Canadian Clearing-house For Consumer and Corporate Ethics
co-author of three books, The Ethical Shoppers Guide [Broadview Press: 1992], Shopping With a Conscience [Wiley: 1996] and Ethical Wills of the Partriarchs [forthcoming: 2010]
an international speaker, writer and trainer in the area of Ethics in Business
Publisher of The Corporate Ethics Monitor
past president of the Ethics Practitioners' Association of Canada
Business Ethics instructor at Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada

David consults and trains widely with a variety of clients, including industry associations (on topics like the ethics of stakeholder management; external expectations of business); the public sector (values and conflict of interest training; strategic planning in government; and managing with integrity); corporations (ethics audits; updating corporate codes of responsible business practice; and benchmarking best practice sustainable business); social agencies (donor screening; ethical partnering; fundraising management in not-for-profits); and non-governmental organizations (ethical investment strategies; demographic and social futures).

He graduated with a MA (Historical Geography, York University), and at the top of his class with an Honours BA (Geography, University of Toronto). David lectures widely on a number of ethics themes: notably, social futures; sustainable business; the changing nature of the workplace; and effective frameworks for enhancing ethical management in corporations. He writes a regular feature column in The Corporate Ethics Monitor.

David's many volunteer and community service appointments include Board positions with the Bathurst-Lawrence Four Quadrants Community Association, The Ethics Practitioners Association of Canada, and breakfast team leader of Toronto's Out of the Cold Program.