Danny Underwood is the Mark and Rosemary Carawan postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Ethical Leadership at Rutgers Business School. Danny is from St. Louis, MO. He received his BA and MA in Philosophy from the University of Missouri – St. Louis and his PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers University with a graduate certificate in Africana studies. His areas of specialization are political philosophy, ethics/applied ethics, and Africana philosophy. His dissertation, “Prosecutors: Discretion, Distrust, and Corrective Transparency,” uses the role of prosecutor to explore an application of fiduciary theory to the discretionary authority of public officials, the effect of the public’s distrust on the legitimacy of public institutions, and the potential of government transparency to counteract the public’s distrust. His work aims to highlight the often-ignored moral limits on the decision-making of public officials and to make their activity visible to the public. He is also profoundly concerned with social justice and the ethics of conflict and peace. A branch of his research concerns the moral urgency of reparations for descendants of slavery, Jim Crow, and other forms of racialized oppression. Another branch concerns a shift from methodological individualism in the ethics of conflict (which focuses on self-defense by just combatants against unjust aggression) to relational ethics (which focuses on the future relationship between combatants after the conflict has ended). While at the IEL, Danny plans to expand his research into the areas of business ethics and leadership ethics. For instance, he is concerned with the ethical considerations of public-private partnerships and government contracting: Are government contractors fiduciaries to the public like public officials? How should the ethical constraints on these firms differ from those fully private ones? How should leaders of contracting firms balance their loyalty to their immediate stakeholders and the public?