Dr. David E. McClean

David McClean is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Business and Professional Ethics at Rutgers University, Newark, where he teaches courses in social ethics, environmental philosophy and ethics, business and professional ethics, and other subjects in philosophy. He is also a member of the contingent faculty of Molloy University, where is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department. Since 1992, he has been Principal of The DMA Consulting Group, which provides regulatory, risk, and governance services to financial services industry firms. He is the editor of and principal contributor to The Integrated Ethics Reader: Reconnecting Thought, Emotion, and Reverence in a World on the Brink (Cognella, 2019, revised 2020), Understanding and Combating Global Corruption: A Reader (Cognella, 2022, revised 2025), and he is co-editor (with Susan Dieleman and Paul Showler) of The Ethics of Richard Rorty: Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination (Routledge, 2022). He authored the monographs, Wall Street, Reforming the Unreformable – An Ethical Perspective (Routledge, 2015), Richard Rorty, Liberalism, and Cosmopolitanism (Routledge, 2014), and a self-published 257-page essay on climate change, “Climate Change – The Moral and Political Imperatives.” In 2020, Dr. McClean was sponsored to serve as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

He is a former member of the board of trustees of The New School, where he also served as a member of the board of governors of The New School for Social Research (The New School’s graduate division). He also served as a member of the board of directors of Impact@Africa (based in Nairobi, Kenya), which facilitates impact investment across the African continent. He was also a member of the board of directors of ERASE Racism, based in Long Island, New York. Presently, he serves on the board of directors of the Manhattan Alternative Investment Network, where he chairs the regulatory affairs committee.