Viatorian Brother: In His Own Write
11/7/2011

The latest book by a Viatorian brother, Entrepreneurship: Values and Responsibility, is among the annual roundup by Foreign Service authors, promoted as holiday gifts in the October, 2011 Foreign Service Journal.

“This timely contribution to the field of business studies explores the relationship of ethics and accountability to success as an entrepreneur,” writes the editor in the journal’s cover story.

Br. Leo V. Ryan co-wrote the business ethics book with Wojciech W. Gasparski and Stefan Kwiatkowski, from the Leon Kozminski Academy in Warsaw, Poland. But it is Ryan who has the Foreign Service credentials.

In 1966, he was the first Roman Catholic to be commissioned in the Foreign Service. He served first as deputy director and later as director of the Peace Corps in Nigeria. Ryan went on to serve as director of the Business College at the University of Notre Dame before serving as a professor of management and dean of the College of Commerce and Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University.

In his retirement at the Viatorian Province Center in Arlington Heights, Ryan continues to write on issues of international business and ethics. Published in October, 2010, Entrepreneurship is in its second edition and is Ryan’s eighth book.