Seven Pillars Institute for Global Finance and Ethics (SPI) is a not-for-profit think tank based in Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 2010 by Kara Tan Bhala, the institute is authorized under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code and is a nonsectarian and nonpartisan research and educational organization. A large part of the institute's work is to provide education on ethics and its application in every area of finance. History Dr. Kara Tan Bhala founded Seven Pillars Institute in Lawrence, Kansas in 2010. The institute is the first think tank in the world to focus on financial ethics. Dr. Tan Bhala serves as president of the institute. She has an MBA from Oxford University and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Kansas. She was previously a lecturer in finance at the University of Kansas, a visiting research fellow (2015 to 2017) and currently an honorary research fellow at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) at the School of Law of Queen Mary University of London. Dr. Tan Bhala has also worked for twenty-three years in international finance, mostly on Wall Street, and nine as a managing director at Merrill Lynch. Dr. Tan Bhala has published extensively and has lived and worked in London, Oxford, Singapore, Hong Kong, New York City, and Washington, D.C. Work Seven Pillars states its financial ethics services, primarily education-oriented, are geared towards the sectors of: government - working with governmental agencies and departments to incorporate ethical considerations into policy-making and provide ethics seminar and consulting business - provide employees with ethical perspectives to decision-making and enlighten employers to ethical issues with the institute's industry case studies academia - contribute to the proliferation of research, articles, and learning tools pertaining to ethics and finance The institute has embarked on a number of collaborative efforts with other organizations and institutions. One such collaboration is with the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London where they work on ethics, law, and regulation in finance. The collaboration aim is to foster a dialogue on important ethical policy issues affecting the financial services industry. This dialogue is to be achieved primarily through Dr. Costanza Russo's designing of a postgraduate module in 'Ethics in Business and in Finance', and a comprehensive framework that includes collaboration on research, publications and other educational endeavors. Dr. Tan Bhala also works closely with the Transparency Task Force, an