Lou Appignani (Miami, FL) is an entrepreneur and currently serves as chairman of LouJA Realty, Inc. He is the founder of the Appignani Humanist Legal Center in Washington DC and the Appignani Bioethics Center in New York, both adjuncts of the American Humanist Association. He previously founded and chaired Computer Education Inc. and Barbizon International Modeling School until 2000. He established the Louis J. Appignani Foundation in 2001 to “support secular activities that will address significant, viable and long term human goals on our planet.” Lou sponsors the Louis J. Appignani Foundation Lecture Series on Science, Reason and Secular Ethics though the Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami, which brings scholars in the field of ethics and reason for lectures, symposia, and discussions. Lou graduated from the Baruch School in New York City and earned an M.S. degree from Columbia University in finance.