Current Ethics Chair

Annabel is currently Professor of Ethics at the Southern New Hampshire University where she recently was named the Chair for the Christos and Mary Papoutsy Distinguished Chair in Ethics. She earned  her Ph.D. in Social Ethics from Boston University; she has a Masters Degree in Theology from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Massachusetts, and an M.B.A. from Cranfield University in England.

Dr. Annabel was previously Vice President of a private college in California and Assistant Professor of Finance at the Simmons Graduate School of Management. She has also taught at the Boston University School of Management and in the Radcliffe Educational Programs, and more recently at Tufts University and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Over the past eleven years, Dr. Beerel has conducted classes and seminars in Leadership and Ethics to a variety of audiences ranging from undergraduates to adult learners to senior executives. She has hosted many panels and facilitated a wide range of meetings. She continues to travel extensively, and present at numerous conferences.

Annabel also has over twenty-five years of business experience in an international context. She is a Chartered Accountant who has held positions in Corporate Finance and Investment Banking. She also started and ran her own business in Artificial Intelligence for 8 years.

She is the author of five books. Her present project, a book entitled Silence is Not Golden: The Shadow Side of Corporate America discusses the root causes of the current spate of corporate misdemeanors and the importance of creating an ethical culture.