The Organizers
The Robin Cosgrove Prize is organized and managed under the supervision of the Observatoire de la Finance (Geneva) and Dr Carol Cosgrove Sacks.

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The Observatoire de la Finance, a non-profit foundation, has been working since 1996 on the relationship between the ethos of the financial activities and its impact on society. The Observatoire aims to raise awareness in the financial sector of the need to pursue the common good by striving to conciliate the good of persons, of organisations and of the community.
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Dr Carol Cosgrove-Sacks, Robin's mother, lives and works in Geneva. She was formerly Director of Trade in the United Nations in Geneva (1994-2005); since 2006 she is a Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges; a Professor at the Europa Institute, University of Basel; and the Senior Advisor on International Standards Policy to OASIS, the global eBusiness standards organisation.
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Prof. Paul H. Dembinski is the initiator and Director of the Foundation of the Observatoire de la Finance. In parallel, he is partner and co-founder (with Alain Schoenenberger) of Eco'Diagnostic, an independent economic research institute working for both government and private clients in Switzerland and elsewhere. Paul H. Dembinski is also Professor at the University of Fribourg.
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Sibilla La Spina is the Communication Officer of the Robin Cosgrove Prize. She has a degree in literature and a Swiss federal diploma in Communications Science; she is an expert in multi-lingual communication and promotion. Ms La Spina contributed in the creation of the Prize in 2006, transforming the global initiative into reality. Since 2006, she has been the Administrator of the Ethics in Finance – Robin Cosgrove Prize.
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Nat Sacks provides webhosting and design services as a contribution in kind to the Prize. Nat is an IT professional with considerable experience of the international finance sector. He is based in England, and Robin was his step-brother.
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Jeffrey Sacks, Robin's step-father, is a retired journalist. He is helping to promote the Robin Cosgrove Prize by commissioning and editing articles on Ethics & Finance for NEW EUROPE and assisting with other promotional material.
Mainly comprised of people who knew Robin and, on a voluntary basis, want to promote his vision of ethics in finance.
Stephen Harris, Chairman of the Promo Group, publisher of WealthBriefing.com
Kirsten Bennett Horner, Executive Director Morgan Stanley, retired
Shawn Bryant, Vice-President, ESPN,USA
Katrina Chang, Manager, Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Andrew Clark, IBM Asia Pacific
Brindusa Fidanza ,World Economic Forum
Viorel Iordache, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Zoran Jolevski, Ambassador of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the USA
Miroslav Jovanovic, Secretary of the UNECE Working Party on Transport Statistics
Collin Madden, founder of Cold Fusion Foods & Investment Manager
Christine Manby, novelist and screenwriter, London
Chantal McLaughlin, UN, New York
Nat Sacks, leading entertainment software house
Raphael Sacks, database analyst, Diabetes UK
Hannah Skeates, asset management industry
Paz Estrella Tolentino, Lecturer in International Business at Birkbeck College, London
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