Robin Cosgrove Prize for Ethics in Finance - The Winners
The Robin Cosgrove Prize for Ethics in Finance was launched in September 2006, to honour the vision of Robin Cosgrove, a young investment banker, who died in 2004 aged 31.
Young people, aged maximum 35, were invited to submit papers on the subject of Innovative Ideas for Ethics in Finance. Following a great response to the Robin Cosgrove Prize, (with more that 130 expressions of interest received), the overall quality level of the entries for the Prize was really exciting.
The evaluation process by a distinguished international Jury, with experts from the academic and from the professional world, was anonymous. After thorough reviews and discussions, the Jury members short-listed seven papers, one of which was jointly written by two young people, so the Nominees come from Australia, Canada, Egypt, England, India, Kenya, Pakistan and Spain (see the Nominess list).
The 7 Nominees' papers are on-line! >>>
Three winners for the first Robin Cosgrove Prize were:
Ms.
Clare Payne, from Australia – 1st prize ex-aequo -
USD 10000.
Clare Payne completed a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Communications at Macquarie University, Sydney Australia. Upon Graduation, she specialised in Employment Law working for a large commercial law firm. She then moved to an in-house legal position and now manages the Integrity Office of an Australian Investment Bank. Clare Payne is a Vincent Fairfax Fellow for Ethics in Leadership; she was awarded Macquarie Volunteer of the Year in 2006 and Future Summit Leadership Awardee 2005. Clare is on the Board of Life Education Australia. Clare Payne is an accomplished marathon swimmer having crossed the Rottnest Channel, Western Australia and was the 11th Australian to swim around Manhattan, New York. She is the only person to have swum solo from Coogee Beach to the Sydney Opera House.
Mr. Jonathan Wisebrod, from Canada
- 1st prize ex-aequo - USD 10000.
Jonathan Wisebrod is a Director of VILLARI, a consulting company based in Singapore (www.VILLARI.sg). VILLARI assists foreign companies with their business in Singapore and advises individual and corporate clients on investment matters, including socially responsible investing. Previously, Jonathan Wisebrod served as the Vice President of Capital Markets for a multibillion dollar private investment company in Singapore and as an Attorney in the Capital Markets Group of a global law firm based in New York. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the New York Bar. He holds an MBA With Distinction from INSEAD in Singapore and an LL.B from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. Jonathan Wisebrod is Canadian and resides in Singapore.
and a special Prize Raiffeisen
of USD 4000 was awarded to
Ms. Rania Abdul Rahim Mousa, from Egypt.
Rania A. Mousa is an Egyptian citizen, holder of an undergraduate degree in Accounting from the American University in Cairo, Egypt. She also holds an MBA degree with double specialisation in Finance and International Business from Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA. Currently, Rania A. Mousa is pursuing a PhD degree in Accounting at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. Her dissertation identifies and examines the scope of adoption of one of the latest technological advances in the field of electronic financial reporting, with focus on the experience of selected British adopting organisations. She worked extensively for several financial and academic institutions in Chicago (USA), Cairo (Egypt), and Kuwait. However, her major goal is to pursue a career in academia and research.
The Robin Cosgrove Prize was awarded during the annual meeting of the Observatoire de la Finance (14th-15th September 2007). The Ceremony took place thanks to the support of, among others, the Raiffeisen Bank, the MAPFRE Group, one of the biggest insurance company in the Iberian Peninsula and in Latin America, as well as the Geneva Place Financière.
See the pictures of the Award Ceremony...
The papers written by the 7 Nominees
were published in a special issue of the journal FINANCE & THE COMMON
GOOD/BIEN COMMUN in September 2007.
The second Robin Cosgrove Prize will be launched in June 2008.
Further details may be obtained
from the Prize Administrator, Ms Sibilla Guidotti, email:
info@robincosgroveprize.org