PROFILE

William Damon, Ph.D., is professor of education at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence. He is one of the world’s leading researchers on lifespan human development and author of The Path to Purpose. Damon’s new book is A Round of Golf with My Father: The New Psychology of Exploring Your Past to Make Peace with the Present. Damon is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Education.