BINGHAMTON, NY – The 28th Abraham J. Briloff Lecture Series on Accountability and Society will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, in the Chamber Hall of the Anderson Center, at Binghamton University. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Michael Kerner ‘86, senior advisor and former CEO of general insurance for Zurich Insurance Group, will deliver a talk titled "Practical Considerations for Accountability after the Great Recession." Kerner joined Zurich in 1992, and he became a member of the group executive committee and CEO of general insurance in September 2012. Prior to this role, he was CEO of Zurich global corporate in North America.

The lecture series is named in honor of the late Abraham Briloff, the Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Bernard Baruch College and Presidential Professor of Accounting and Ethics at Binghamton University, who died in 2013. Over his long and distinguished career, Briloff was recognized as the ethical conscience for business and the accounting profession. Through his writings and lectures, he emphasized the need for ethical business practices and influenced others to make the highest ethical standards the basis of their work.

The School of Management sponsors the Briloff series, which brings together members of the accounting profession, business and campus communities to contemplate topics of business ethics. Anyone interested in attending should contact Debbie Standard at standar@binghamton.edu or 607-777-2314 to reserve seats.