Dr. Robert Enright holds the Aristotelian Professorship in Forgiveness Science within the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a licensed psychologist, and founder of the International Forgiveness Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to disseminating knowledge about forgiveness and community renewal through forgiveness. He is the first to publish a scientific study on the topic of person-to-person forgiveness, in 1989. He is
the first to publish research on forgiveness therapy, in 1993, as he developed the 20-step “Process Model of Forgiving.” He has been called “the forgiveness trailblazer” by Time magazine. Dr. Enright is the author or editor of eight books and over 190 publications centered on social development and the psychology of forgiveness.

His latest endeavors include forgiveness education for students in various world communities (for example, Israel, Monrovia, Northern Ireland, the Philippines, and Taiwan) and forgiveness therapy with those in correctional institutions. For his innovative research on forgiveness, he received in 2022 what the American Psychological Association calls “psychology’s highest awards,” the APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology.