Azish Filabi, JD, MA, is the Executive Director of the American College Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics in Financial Services and the Charles Lamont Post Chair of Business Ethics and Associate Professor. Her career has spanned the private sector, non-profits, regulatory agencies, and academia.

Filabi has presented on business ethics and corporate culture at various forums, including the OECD, the NY State Bar Association, the Ethics and Compliance Initiative (ECI), Thomson Reuters, the 1LoD conference, the Conference Board, and the Good Work Institute, among others. At The College, she leads the strategy and research programs of the Center for Ethics, including its annual Forum on Ethical Leadership. She also co-teaches the Trust and Leadership Certificate Program, a bespoke workshop for leaders in business, teaches in The College’s MSM and MSFP Programs, and designs and delivers education for The College’s financial services designations.

Prior to joining The College, Filabi was a member of the BlackRock Investment Stewardship team, where she led corporate governance, sustainability, and proxy voting considerations relating to a portfolio of companies in which BlackRock is invested on behalf of its clients. She also served as Executive Director of Ethical Systems, an organization housed at the

NYU Stern School of Business. Her writing has appeared in Fortune, Kiplinger, Wolters Kluwer, the Journal of Business Ethics, the NAIC Journal of Insurance Regulation, and Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence, among other publications.

Filabi holds a BA as an Echols Interdisciplinary Scholar from the University of Virginia (UVA), a JD from the UVA School of Law, and an MA in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).