Stanley S. Litow is IBM's Vice President of Corporate Citizenship &
Corporate Affairs and President of IBM's Foundation. He heads global corporate citizenship and corporate social responsibility at IBM. Under his leadership, IBM has been widely regarded as a global leader
in Corporate Social Responsibility and prized for its societal and
environmental leadership, its labor practices and civic leadership.
Under Stan, IBM has developed innovative voice recognition technology to help non-literate children and adults learn to read, automatic language translation and bilingual email, open source technology to help people with disabilities access the web, a humanitarian grid to power research on Cancer and AIDS and new digital imaging technology to improve water quality. He helped devise IBM's Global Citizen's Portfolio consisting of matching accounts for learning and The Corporate Service Corps a corporate version of the Peace Corps that trains thousands of IBM's future leaders. IBM's efforts in education have raised student achievement and won the company two Ron Brown Awards presented by the President.

Before joining IBM, he served as Deputy Chancellor of Schools for New
York City, the nation's largest school system, and prior to that he
founded and ran Interface, the nonprofit "think tank" and served as
an aide to both the Mayor and Governor of New York.

His articles and essays have appeared in numerous books and
publications including the Yale Law Review, Annual Survey of American
Law, Brookings Papers, the American Academy of Sciences, the Journal
for the Center for National Policy, Education Week, Harvard Business
School’s Working Papers, New York Times and Newsday.

Stanley is a recipient of the Council on Foundation's prestigious
Scrivner Award for creative philanthropy and awards from the Anne
Frank Center, Martin Luther King Commission, Manhattanville College,
Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Coro Foundation, Helen
Keller Services to the Blind, and the Women's City Club. He has
taught at New School University, the City University of New York and
Long Island University. Corporate Responsibility Officer Magazine
voted him CEO of the Year for 2008 and 2009.

He served on the President's Welfare to Work Commission, and now
serves on the board of Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise
Initiative, Citizen's Budget Commission, The After School Corporation
and the Albert Shanker Institute.

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