Ramiro Executive Search Consultants work with aligned institutions interested in promoting academic excellence, genuinely free inquiry, and the moral virtues that built Western Civilization.
Unlike other search firms, we understand that moral fashions and a lock-step ideology have corrupted the academy. Too often academic leaders today are expected to promote political and cultural views equally hostile to traditional values and to scholarly integrity. Ramiro offers an alternative by identifying outstanding academics for leadership positions who have the drive, competence, and habits of mind and character to rebuild America’s colleges and universities.
Our consultants draw on nationwide networks to tailor candidate pools for academic institutions interested in moving beyond higher education’s current malaise. With the right leaders, institutions can restore excellence and virtue to scholarship and teaching. Ramiro knows how to find those leaders.
Ramiro Executive Search Consultants work with boards of trustees to hire university presidents; with executive leadership to identify provost- and dean-level candidates; and with departments to hire senior tenured faculty. We come along side clients to help with interview preparation and candidate evaluation, always tailored to particular mission fits.
Board of Consultants
Dr. Russell Berman is the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution where he co-directs the Working Group on the Middle East and the Islamic World He formerly served as Senior Advisor on the Policy Planning Staff of the United States Department of State with a focus on transatlantic relations and as a member of the Commission on Inalienable Rights. In addition, he is a member of the National Humanities Council. Berman has been awarded a Mellon Faculty Fellowship at Harvard and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for research in Berlin; he has also been honored with the Federal Service Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany. He has served in numerous administrative capacities at Stanford, where he directed the Overseas Studies Program as well as major programs in general education. For fifteen years he was the editor of Telos, a journal of critical theory, and he served as the 2011 President of the Modern Language Association.
Dr. Bradford P. Wilson is Executive Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Lecturer in Politics, and Fellow of Forbes College at Princeton University. He is a Senior Fellow in the Witherspoon Institute and is a presidential appointee to the Board of Trustees of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation. Wilson has served as President of the Association for the Study of Free Institutions since 2006, and serves on the Advisory Council of the Great Hearts Institute. He was Research Associate to two Chief Justices of the United States, Warren E. Burger and William H. Rehnquist. From 1996 to 2004, he served as Acting President and then Executive Director of the National Association of Scholars and was Editor of the journal Academic Questions.
- Dr. Richard Lowery is an Associate Professor of Finance at University of Texas Austin. He is an applied game theorist, with research in banking, investment banking, real estate, and other topics. His academic work has appeared in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Political Economy, and other outlets. Lowery helped organize the Academic Freedom Conference at Stanford during 2022, helped establish the Salem Center at UT, and has been involved in efforts to reform higher education for years. He teaches in UT’s undergraduate, MBA, and the Masters of Science in Finance programs. He has also taught in the MBA program at Carnegie Mellon as a visiting professor.
- Mr. Todd Zywcki is George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University Antonin Scalia School of Law, Research Fellow of the Law & Economics Center, and former Executive Director of the Law and Economics Center. In 2020-21 he served as the Chair of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Task Force on Federal Consumer Financial Law. He served as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law & Economics in 2019. From 2003-2004, Professor Zywicki served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. In 2009, Professor Zywicki was the recipient of the Institute for Humane Studies 2009 Charles G. Koch Outstanding IHS Alum Award. He served as Co-Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review from 2006-2017 and as Editor from 2001-2002. He has authored more than 130 articles in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed economics journals; is or has been a fellow or senior fellow at numerous important freedom-based think tanks across the globe; and he serves on the boards of trustees or advisory boards for the Institute for Humane Studies, The Bill of Rights Institute, the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, the Center for Excellence in Higher Education, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and others.
- Dr. Daniel A. Bonevac is a professor of philosophy at University of Texas, Austin, where he served as chairman from 1991-2001. He has authored five books and is editor or co-editor of four more and is one of the world’s experts on non-Western philosophy as well as contemporary moral philosophy.