Director
David Rosenberg, Esq., was appointed Academic Director of the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity in July 2012. He is a is an Associate Professor in the Law Department in the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College. Professor Rosenberg teaches the law of business organizations and other business law subjects in the Zicklin School’s undergraduate and Master’s degree programs. He holds a J.D. from Cornell Law School where he was an Editor of the Cornell Law Review. He received a B.A. from Oberlin College.
Professor Rosenberg is an expert on the fiduciary duties of corporate directors and other business leaders. He has published scholarly articles on corporate governance, limited partnerships, venture capital funds and other areas of business law. His two most recent articles addressed the debate in the Delaware courts over the meaning of the term “good faith,” as it applies to a director’s duties to a corporation and its shareholders. He is currently a Director/Trustee of the Fred Alger family of mutual funds.
Director of Finance and Sustainability Programming
Lin Peng holds the title of Krell Chair Professor of Finance at Baruch College, the City University of New York, where she also serves as the PhD program coordinator. She is also an associate editor for Management Science and the Journal of Empirical Finance, a visiting scholar at Princeton University, and a member of the management committee for the Keynes Fund for Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge.
Professor Peng has extensive expertise in the areas of investor attention, social networks, sustainable finance, and FinTech. Her expertise has been featured by media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters, Institutional Investor, and the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment Newsletter. She has been named an honoree of AACSB’s 2024 Influential Leaders for her research in advancing new knowledge and creating impact in business and society. Her research has been invited to be presented at the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Reserve Bank’s Board of Governors, European Securities and Markets Authority, Bank of England, China Securities Regulatory Commission, and many leading universities and numerous conferences in Economics, Finance, Accounting, and Law.
She has published her work in leading economics and finance journals, with many among the top 50 journals as ranked by the Financial Times, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance (lead article), Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics. She has also won various grants and awards for her research, and Best Paper Awards at multiple leading conferences.
Director of Program on Tech Ethics

Professor Yafit Lev-Aretz is the Director of the RZCCI’s Program on Tech Ethics. Tech Ethics examines the ethical dilemmas associated with the various technology applications, including in the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data. The tech ethics program is designed to increase awareness of such ethical dilemmas and foster a conversation on the positive and negative impacts of technology. The program also aims to equip future leaders with the insights and perspectives needed to make complex decisions about the use of technology in business and society.
Professor Lev-Aretz is a tech policy expert, researching the fascinating relationship between the law, technology, and society. She has written about information privacy, the growing use of algorithmic decision-making, intrusive means of news dissemination, choice architecture in the age of big data, and the ethical challenges posed by machine learning and artificially intelligent systems. Additionally, her research highlights the legal treatment of beneficial uses of data, such as data philanthropy and the data for good movement, striving to strike a delicate balance between solid privacy protections and competing values.
Director of Sports Ethics
Marc Edelman, Esq., is the Director of Sports Ethics for the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity. He is also a Professor in the Law Department in the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, where he teaches courses in antitrust law, gaming law, intellectual property and sports law. Professor Edelman has published upwards of 60 law review articles on topics including how the Sherman Act applies to professional sports leagues, how gaming laws apply to fantasy sports contests, and how both antitrust laws and labor laws apply within the realm of college sports. He is recognized as one of the leading voices in the movement to reform college sports for the wellbeing of student-athletes.
Professor Edelman holds a J.D. from Michigan Law School, an M.S. Ed. (Higher Education Administration) from the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, an M.A. (Sports Management) from the University of Michigan, and a B.S. (Economics) from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Before entering academia, Professor Edelman practiced antitrust and sports law with the New York offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP. He continues to consult for professional sports teams, sports labor unions, and companies in the sports gambling and fantasy sports industries.
Associate Director
Ruzdo “Rocky” Srdanovic is the Associate Director of the RZCCI. Rocky joined the Center in 2010 as a College Assistant. He later became the Conference Coordinator upon completing his B.B.A at Baruch College. Rocky was given the role of Associate Director in 2017. In addition to his work at RZCCI , Rocky has served as a Board Member of the FEBA Business Council, an organization founded by a group of business leaders and professionals with the aim of creating a positive business environment that fosters job development and promotes economic growth for the Balkan-American community.
Ensuring Integrity: The Annual Audit Conference Director
Douglas Carmichael, PhD, CPA, is the founding director of the Center for Corporate Integrity. In April 2003 he was named chief auditor of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). In 1983, he came to Baruch, where he is now the Morton Wollman Distinguished Professor of Accountancy, from over a decade with the American Institute of CPAs, where he focused on auditing standards. He has been a consultant for the Securities and Exchange Commission and an expert witness on forensic accounting and independence issues. Accounting Today selected him as one of the100 most influential accountants in the country, one of only three academics listed, citing him as “a strong advocate for safeguarding ethics and integrity in the profession.” An award-winning author, he has been a frequent source about the financial statements of public companies in the business press, including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times . He recently co-authored The CPA’s Guide to Professional Ethics (John Wiley, 2000).
Financial Reporting Conference Director
Marc Siegel is the Co-Founder and Executive Advisor of Metrix Advisory. He has over 30 years of experience in public accounting, research, and accounting industry regulation and compliance. He is a former member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).
Marc previously was national office partner at PwC and Americas corporate and ESG reporting thought leader at EY. He began his career at Arthur Andersen, where he was a director.
Marc has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and is a certified public accountant.