Who is The Chairman of the Committee on the Study of Methods from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and what is their importance?

The Chairman of the Committee on the Study of Methods represents a smug intellectual who has swallowed whole the Western dualistic tradition and employs a teaching style intended to perpetuate conformity. His is depicted as unduly proud of himself and as pompous almost to the point of absurdity. He wrangles with Phaedrus.