About Wharton CEO

Professor Shropshire is the Senior Advisor to Wharton School Dean Erika James. He returns to the University of Pennsylvania as the David W. Hauck Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School and Emeritus Professor of Africana Studies, after five years of launching and leading as CEO of the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University where he was also the Adidas Distinguished Professor of Global Sport. In his previous 30-year career at Wharton, he founded and directed the Wharton Sports Business Initiative and led the sports-focused executive education programs.

Dr. Fareeda Griffith is the Managing Director of the Wharton CEO Initiative at the Wharton School. With over a decade of experience in higher education, she is helping to launch Wharton CEO with the creation of the CEO Lab while promoting and addressing issues of equity and opportunity, and community engagement. As a quantitatively trained sociologist and demographer, Griffith received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania and worked for the last thirteen years at Denison University as an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology and Director of Global Health.

Dr. Mustafa is the Wharton Coalition for Equity and Opportunity Fellow at the Wharton School. Their primary responsibilities at CEO include analyzing and synthesizing Wharton’s social and economic equity research for business firms, policymakers, and the public, while producing academic scholarship that integrates notions of socioeconomic justice and ethics into business and political economic theory. Before joining the CEO team, Dr. Mustafa earned a Ph.D. in Legal Studies & Business Ethics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and spent a decade working with civil society organizations, governments, and universities to address human rights and racial justice issues.