Professor Richard D. MacMinn, BA, MA, PhD, is the first holder of the Edmondson-Miller Chair in Insurance and Financial Services at Illinois State University and was previously the first holder of the Swiss Re Chair in the Management of Risk at the University of Nottingham. He was editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance, the lead journal in the world on insurance and risk management, published by the American Risk and Insurance Association from 1998 through 2006.
Den Patten's research interests are in corporate social responsibility, environmental disclosure, and nonprofit accounting. He has published in Accounting, Organizations and Society, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Business Ethics, and other journals.