Paul G. Schervish is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Welfare Research Institute (SWRI) at Boston College. He received a bachelor's degree in literature from the University of Detroit, a Masters in sociology from Northwestern University, a Masters of Divinity Degree from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. For the 1999-2000 academic year he was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy. Schervish was Fulbright Professor of Philanthropy for the 2000-2001 academic year at University College, Cork, Ireland. He has been selected in 2000, 2001, and 2002 to the NonProfit Times annual "Power and Influence Top 50," a list which acknowledges the most effective leaders in the non-profit world. Along with John J. Havens, Associate Director of SWRI, he authored the report, Millionaires and the Millennium: New Estimates of the Forthcoming Wealth Transfer and the Prospects for a Golden Age of Philanthropy. Recently Schervish, Havens, and Mary O'Herlihy completed the 2001-High Tech Donors Study based on 32 intensive interviews with high-tech donors and informants about the strategies of wealth accumulation and allocation which are described as agent-directed wealth and philanthropy. Schervish serves regularly as a speaker and consultant on how to surface and analyze the moral biographies of wealth holders, on the motivations for charitable giving, and on the spirituality of financial life. He is completing work on The Modern Medici: Strategies of Philanthropy Among the Wealthy.