Son of Savannah banker Charles Steadman Sanford, Sr. and grandson of noted Georgia educator Steadman Vincent Sanford, Charles Steadman Sanford, Jr. has already left a significant mark on both business and university spheres. A graduate of the University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Sanford is credited with turning Bankers Trust into one of the most innovative and profitable financial institutions world-wide. He is also a director of J.C. Penney and the Mobil Corporation.

Sanford has also left a mark on the University. An active alumnus, Sanford co-chaired the University's Third Century Fund and is a member of the Foundation Board of Trustees. During the University's bicentennial year, he created an endowed chair in the Terry College of Business in memory of his banker father. Most recently, Sanford was the cornerstone in the efforts to build a new student center in the business school. Because of his and his wife Mary's great contributions to both the University and the business school, the hall, dedicated in October 1997, is named for them.

—>Mr. Sanford's Biography

• Thoughts for Risk Managers (May 2000)
• Managing the Transformation of a Corporate Culture: Risks and Rewards (November 1996)
• The Risk Management Revolution (October 1994)
• The Social Value of Financial Services (October 1993)
• Financial Markets in 2020 (August 1993)
• Social Contract (September 1992)
• Life Value and the Paradoxes of Risk (June 1989)

• Guill, G. D., Bankers Trust and the Birth of Modern Risk Management (2008) (PDF | 283 KB)

• Thinking, Doing and Believing (June 1996)
• The Real Cost of Regulation (November 1992)
• Concept and Execution: Merchant Banking in Today's Marketplace (October 1987)
• Careers and Lives: An Enlightened Alternative (September 1987)
• Deregulation, Technology and the 'Safety of Soundness' of the Financial System (March 1987)
• Today's Bank in the Marketplace of Tomorrow (June 1986)
• The Burden of the State: Roots of the Latin American Debt Crisis (April 1986)
• People, Productivity, and Profits in a Deregulating World (March 1986)
• Investment Banking and Commercial Banking: The Eroding Boundaries (December 1985)
• Relationship Management in the Merchant Bank (November 1985)
• The Hard Part: Planning and Execution in a Deregulating Environment (October 1985)
• Regulation and Risk: The Hidden Costs of Limiting Competition (October 1984)
• The Challenges of Deregulation (September 1984)
• Glass-Steagall: An Anti-Competitive Relic (February 1984)