Erik D Ramanathan

Erik D. Ramanathan was named executive director of the Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession and its Center on Lawyers and the Professional Services Industry in November 2009 Before joining Harvard Law School, Ramanathan was senior vice president, general counsel, secretary and chief compliance officer of ImClone Systems. As general counsel of this $6 billion biotechnology firm researching and commercializing novel oncology therapeutics, Ramanathan dealt with a myriad of high profile legal, governance and reputational challenges at the highly successful yet often troubled company. Previously, he was an attorney at Proskauer Rose in New York where he counseled academic medical centers and the healthcare industry. Ramanathan also chairs the board of Immigration Equality, a nonprofit organization providing legal services and advocacy on behalf of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and HIV-affected immigrants and asylum seekers in the U.S. Ramanathan consults for both for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises on law department management and legal crisis control, and he writes and speaks on matters of legal ethics, public health and civil rights. In addition to his J.D. from Harvard, Ramanathan earned a bachelor’s degree in behavioral biology from The Johns Hopkins University in 1991.