Perrin Cohen, Ph.D.

Perrin is founder and Executive Director of the Ethical Advisory Group (EAG). Prior to founding EAG, he also founded Northeastern University's Ethics Education Center (NUCASE) in 1990 and continued as its Director for 14 years. As NUCASE Director, he led colleagues in developing the AIR Modelsm of ethical inquiry, a model which served as the basis for cross-disciplinary ethics education programs in business, health sciences, engineering, work-based learning, education, and criminal justice. The resulting partnerships and network of workshops, training programs, seminars, public talks, and web resources have been shown to be effective in helping clients identify and manage ethical issues in organizational cultures. A research scientist by training, Perrin has published and spoken frequently at national and international conferences on ethics education, research ethics, learning, and motivation.

Perrin received his Ph.D. from Columbia University followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Neurological Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Subsequently, he has been a faculty member specializing in the psychology of learning and motivation in the Psychology Departments at Florida State University and Northeastern University for 35 years. He also was a Clinical Fellow in Psychology in the Department of Psychology, Harvard Medical School for two years and for many years a member of the Board of Directors of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.

Perrin's interest in ethics education in organizations developed out of a confluence of three factors: ethical conflicts that he experienced as a student, scientist, educator, and clinician, his research in the field of learning and motivation, and his practice and study of Buddhist philosophy.