 Senior Distinguished Fellow
Program on the Legal Profession
Harvard Law School
23 Everett Street #G-24
Cambridge, MA 02138
Mr. Heineman is a distinguished senior fellow of the Program on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School and senior fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. He is a graduate of Harvard College (1965), a former Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University (1967 - graduate degree/political science), and holds a law degree from Yale Law School (1971), where he was the editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. After graduation, he clerked for Associate Justice Potter Stewart at the Supreme Court of the United States.
Mr. Heineman practiced law in Washington before serving at HEW from 1977-1980, ending his tenure there as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. He was then managing partner of the Washington office of Sidley & Austin, focusing on Supreme Court and test case litigation. In 1987, Mr. Heineman became Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the General Electric Company located in Fairfield, Connecticut. In 2004, he was named GE's Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs.
Mr. Heineman is a member of the American Law Institute; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; a member of the Board of Transparency International-USA; a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Constitution Center; and a member of the Board of Managers and Overseers of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is the author of books on British race relations and the American presidency.
He is a frequent speaker and lecturer and also instructs at the Program’s Executive Education course.
JD, Yale Law School, 1971
Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University, 1967
AB, Harvard College, 1965
Harvard Business Review: Avoiding Integrity Landmines: An inside look at how GE has worked to build a culture that sustains both high performance and high integrity, April 18, 2007
Corporate Counsel: Caught in the Middle: Corporate counsel must guard their company's reputation and work well with the business side, December 21, 2006
Law and Leadership, Robert H. Preiskel and Leon Silverman Lecture, Yale Law School, December 21, 2006 |
