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DR. LEV SZENTKIRÁLYI† is an Assistant Teaching Professor with the Social Responsibility and Sustainability Division in the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the recipient of the 2025 Frascona Teaching Excellence Award: the highest teaching honor in Leeds.  Dr. Szentkirályi’s teaching consists in diverse courses on business ethics, global political economy, and environmental sustainability—which draw on his interdisciplinary Political Science training in normative political theory, environmental policy, and international relations.  Dr. Szentkirályi is also a Faculty Associate with the Environmental Studies Department, he serves as the Faculty Director for Global Initiatives in Leeds, he is the Founder and Executive Director of the Szentkirályi Scholarship Fund, and he serves on the Board of Directors for Stonewall Farm (an educational non-profit organization in Keene, NH that promotes sustainable agriculture).  

Dr. Szentkirályi’s applied ethics research centers on public health risks, environmental sustainability, and corporate social responsibility.  In striving to develop ethically justified yet pragmatic policy solutions, the broader aim of Dr. Szentkirályi’s research—including his first book, The Ethics of Precaution (New York: Routledge, 2019), and his most recent article, “Run, Hide, and Fight?!”—is to explore practical ways in which vulnerable groups in our communities can be protected from injustices.  In addition to his contributions to various edited volumes, Dr. Szentkirályi’s work has also appeared in the Journal of Business Ethics (8.7 impact factor); Ethics, Policy, and Environment (1.4 impact factor); and International Political Science Review (impact factor: 2.7).  Dr. Szentkirályi’s current book project is an edited volume with Oxford University Press, titled Future Uncertain: Overcoming Barriers to Effective Climate Policy, co-authored with Dr. Kris Karnauskas in CU’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.

Details on Dr. Szentkirályi’s interdisciplinary research and teaching record can be found under the teaching and research tabs above.

† pronounced: sěnt-kē-rŏ-yē  ::  “sent-key-rah-yee”