Senior Director, Leadership Ethics
408-554-5466
askeet@scu.edu
Ann (Gregg) Skeet is the senior director of leadership ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Her work focuses on the ethical dilemmas of leaders and followers and business ethics, with a particular interest in healthy corporate culture, ethical leadership practices, and responsible technology governance. Her research has explored how to make ethics pervasive in organizations and responsible AI practices in corporations. She teaches ethics literacy and technology governance for boards in the Leavey Executive Center at Santa Clara University. Skeet is a co-author of “Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operational Roadmap” and "Voting for Ethics: A Guide for U.S. Voters Second Edition."
Skeet is a member of the AI Research Group at the Vatican Dicastery on Culture and Education, the Partnership on AI’s Enterprise AI Steering Committee, and the Advisory Board for the Center for Technology and Human Dignity at Benedictine College. She was a member of the steering committee for the Responsible Use of Technology at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the 4th Industrial Revolution where she co-authored a white paper on designing ethics into organizations. She has also served on the Partnership on AI’s Working Group on AI, Labor and the Economy where she co-authored a paper offering a Framework for Workforce Well-being in the AI-integrated Workplace.
Skeet’s views have been in Al Jazeera, Associated Press, CEO magazine, CGTN American, Forbes, Fortune.com, Gizmodo, KCSB, KGO-TV, KNGU, MarketWatch, NBC Bay Area, NPR, The New York Times, recode, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times, The San Jose Mercury News, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Wall Street Journal and on various podcasts.
Skeet earned a bachelor of arts in economics from Bucknell University and a master of business administration degree from Harvard Business School. She spent an undergraduate semester at the London School of Economics. Skeet spent her early career working in outside plant for C&P Telephone Company (now Verizon) in the Washington, D.C. area.
Previously, Skeet served as CEO of American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley for 8 years and worked for a decade as a Knight Ridder executive, serving the San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Newspapers as Vice President of Marketing. She was also president of Notre Dame High School San Jose.
In the Silicon Valley community, Skeet has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including the Silicon Valley Directors Exchange; the Institute for Sports Law and Ethics; the Catholic Community Foundation of Santa Clara County; and as a chair for United Way of Silicon Valley and American Musical Theatre San Jose.
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