Prof. Marc Chesney is Professor of Finance at the University of Zurich. Previously in Paris, he was Professor and Associate Dean at HEC, President of the CEBC (Centre d'Etudes sur le Blanchiment et la Corruption) and an external expert with the World Bank. He has published articles and books in the areas of quantitative Finance and also of financial crime mechanisms. In addition, he focuses on the subject of Ethics and Finance. At the University of Zurich, he is member of the Board of the Graduate Programme for interdisciplinary Research in Ethics and co-organizer of the Ethical Finance Research Series. He is also member of the advisory Board of Finance & Common Good/Bien Commun. Marc Chesney holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Geneva and obtained his Habilitation from the Sorbonne University.

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. She also maintains interest in some British academic centres, including the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, and the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies (CEAS),University of Reading.

Prof. Henri-Claude de Bettignies holds the AVIVA Chair in Leadership and Responsibility and is Emeritus Professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management at INSEAD. He is also Distinguished Professor of Global Responsible Leadership at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), in Shanghai. He had been teaching ethics at Stanford Business School (for the last 16 years), and he started and led the development of the ethics initiative at INSEAD before moving to China where currently he is creating, with CEIBS, the Euro-China Centre for Leadership and Responsibility. Professor de Bettignies is director of AVIRA, an INSEAD programme pioneering a new approach to enlighten CEOs. Henri-Claude was the founder of the Euro-Asia Centre at INSEAD, seeds of INSEAD successful development in Asia. He is the Founder and Director of CEDRE (Centre for the Study of Development and Responsibility), Chairman of the LVMH Asia Scholarships, member of the Editorial Board of five academic journals and he is a member of the Board of Jones Lang LaSalle.

After graduating from the HEC, François Debiesse joined the Bank of Paris and the Netherlands in 1971, holding succesively various management positions. In 1999 he became Director of the Private Bank BNP Paribas, and in 2008 he was appointed Director of BNP Paribas Wealth Management. From 1995 to 2008 he also serves as Chairman of BNP Paribas. François Debiesse is now President of the Fondation de l'Orangerie for individual philanthropy since 2009 and Advisor for Philanthropy and Microfinance for BNP Paribas Wealth Management since 2011.

Christopher de Mattos is a director of London-based investment manager RAB Capital Ltd. and sits on the boards of a number of regulated and unregulated investment funds. He has spent over 20 years in the financial services industry, working as a financial analyst and investment banker in Europe and Latin America. Christopher joined the founding team at RAB in 1999 and, as Finance Director, was instrumental in taking the company to flotation on London’s AIM market in 2004. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London and gained SERC and Kitchener scholarships to study for his MBA at INSEAD. Having reduced his involvement in the day-to-day management of RAB, he has taken a particular interest in the role of the board in promoting corporate governance in financial services businesses.

Prof. Paul H. Dembinski is the initiator and Director of the Foundation of the Observatoire de la Finance. The mission of the Observatoire de la Finance is to promote awareness of ethical concerns in financial activities and the financial sector. Paul H. Dembinski is the founder and editor of the quarterly bilingual journal entitled Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun. 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 University of Fribourg where he teaches "International Competition and Strategy".

Dr Robert Alan Feldman is the Chief Economist and Co-Director of Japan Research at Morgan Stanley Japan Securities Co., Ltd. As part of Morgan Stanley's global economics team, he is responsible for forecasting the Japanese economy and interest rates. He is a regular commentator on World Business Satellite, the nightly business program of TV Tokyo. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1998, Robert was the chief economist for Japan for Salomon Brothers from 1990-97. He worked for the International Monetary Fund from 1983-89, in the Asian, European, and Research Departments. Robert has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he concentrated on international finance and development. He did his undergraduate work at Yale University, where he took BAs in both Economics and in Japanese Studies, graduating phi beta kappa, summa cum laude. Before he entered graduate school, he worked at both the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and at the Chase Manhattan Bank.

Dr Philippa Foster Back has over 25 years of business experience. She began her career at Citibank NA before joining Bowater in their Corporate Treasury Department in 1979, leaving in 1988 as Group Treasurer. She was Group Finance Director at DG Gardner Group, a training organisation, prior to joining Thorn EMI in 1993 as Group Treasurer. She was appointed Institute of Business Ethics' Director in August 2001. Philippa Foster Back has a number of external appointments, including at the Ministry of Defence, The Institute of Directors and the Association of Corporate Treasurers, where she was President from 1999 to 2000. In 2006 she was appointed Chairman of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust.

Dr Andrew Hilton is Director of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, a London-based non-profit think-tank, supported by 70 City institutions, that looks at threats to and opportunities in the global financial system. The CSFI was set up 20 years ago, and has since published several books and around 100 reports. More significantly, it has organized well over 1,300 round-tables on issues of pressing interest in the financial services sector - including EMU, the single European market, the Internet, small business finance, high-tech start-ups, microfinance and regulation. Dr. Hilton also runs a small economic and financial consultancy. He has worked for the World Bank in Washington and has run a financial advisory service for the Financial Times in New York. He is a board member of the Observatoire de la finance in Geneva. He has a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from Wharton and an MA from New College, Oxford. He was appointed OBE in 2006.

Mr Peter Gakunu was an Alternate Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund in charge of Africa Group One constituency. Before joining the Fund, he served as Special Advisor to the Kenya Cabinet in charge of economic reforms from February 2003 to October 2004. In September 2000, he joined the "Dream Team", a team of high level personalities put together by the World Bank and UNDP to advise the Kenya Government on reforms. He worked as Economic Secretary and Director of Planning in the Ministry of Finance and Planning until December 2002. He coordinated the first Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Kenya. In 2003 he was appointed Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Environment. Prior to returning to Kenya, he worked with the African Carribean and Pacific Group in Brussels from 1986 to 2000 as Director of Trade, and from 1977 to 1986 as Trade Expert in the ACP Secretariat. Peter Gakunu has known Robin for a long time. He recalls: "I first visited Carol and her family in Reading in 1978. Early on my first morning, Robin and his brother Andrew came to wake me up for my breakfast. I clearly remember those vivid eyes peering through my window and the little giggles that the two boys exchanged. Robin was a gentle person, gifted in many ways and very energetic and considerate. I was lucky to have met him and privileged to be chosen to serve in immortalizing his memory".

Dominique Jacquet is Visiting Scholar at Insead Social Innovation Center and Professor of Corporate Finance at Cedep, University of Paris Ouest and Ecole des Ponts ParisTech. He is a civil engineer (Ecole des Ponts), holds an MBA from Insead and a PhD from the University of Bordeaux. Before starting an academic career, he has been a finance executive in American and French corporations, holding controller, treasurer and CFO positions. His main areas of interests are the relationship with business and finance, the role of incentives in sustainable value creation and the link between uncertainty and financial strategy.

Dr hab. Róża Milic-Czerniak is a Fellow of the Banking Commission of Ethics by Polish Banking Association and holds a post of the associate professor at the private economic university in Katowice. Previously, she has held a number of the managing positions in one of the biggest banks in Poland, where she was responsible for developing capital management , methodology of product and client profitability concerning costs of risk, capital and costs allocation. She participated also in several projects, as project of ICAAP introducing, etc. Prior to joining bank, she worked at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, where she researched on economic behavior of households, also in transformation periods (participating in international surveys and projects). She is author of several books and research papers and spent 1,5 year in Germany (at the Hohenheim University in Stuttgart and University in Kiel) during the fellowship of Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.

Mr Peter O'Connor is an experienced global and regional asset allocation and manager selection adviser for financial institutions, family offices and charities. He is Chairman/Lead Director of a number of publicly quoted investment/production companies with particular personal experience in Asia for the past 30 years. After boarding school in Ireland, Peter O'Connor read Economics and Law at Trinity College Dublin and King's Inns Dublin respectively. He has lived and worked in London and Hong Kong, and he travelled frequently to most Asian countries, Canada and emerging economies in Europe.

Mr Jean-Christophe Pernollet is Chief Financial Officer of the Edmond de Rothschild Group. Earlier in his career he was the partner in charge of the Geneva office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is a graduate from IEP and EDHEC and has completed the Columbia Business School Senior Executive Program. As a Lead bank auditor recognized by the Federal Banking Commission, he is a financial services industry specialist and benefits from more than twenty years of working experience, of which three in Paris and two in New York. In 2010 he moved to EFG Bank.

After taking his degree at Oxford University, Mr John Plender joined Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Co in the City of London in 1967, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1970. He then moved into journalism and became financial editor of The Economist in 1974, where he remained until joining the UK Foreign Office policy planning staff in 1980. On leaving the Foreign Office, he became a senior editorial writer and columnist at the Financial Times, an assignment he combined until recently with current affairs broadcasting for the BBC and Channel 4. A past chairman of Pensions and Investment Research Consultants (PIRC), John Plender has served on the London Stock Exchange's quality of markets advisory committee and the UK government's Company Law Review steering group. He is a non-executive director of Quintain PLC, a FTSE 250 company. His book, All You Need To Know About Ethics And Finance, is published by Longtail Publishing.

Domingo Sugranyes graduated from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, in 1969. He was General Secretary of the International Christian Union of Business Executives (UNIAPAC), between 1973 and 1981. He joined MAPFRE, Spain's leading insurance group in 1981. He was active in the international development of the group in Latin America and in Reinsurance worldwide. From 1989 to 2007 he was in charge of the group's listed holding company and member of the group's executive. After retiring from executive positions he remains on the Board of the MAPFRE Foundation and of several group companies. As complementary activities, Domingo Sugranyes was President of UNIAPAC from 1997/2000 and vice-chairman of the Board of Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation, a Vatican Center for Christian Social Teaching.

The Rt. Reverend Justin Welby is Bishop of Durham and a member of the House of Lords. He was previously a senior executive in a UK oil company, before ordination in the Church of England. For many years, he was responsible for the reconciliation work of Coventry Cathedral, travelling widely in Africa and the Middle East. Justin Welby has written extensively on ethics and finance. In July 2012 he was appointed to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards.

Prof. Marc Chesney is Professor of Finance at the University of Zurich. Previously in Paris, he was Professor and Associate Dean at HEC, President of the CEBC (Centre d'Etudes sur le Blanchiment et la Corruption) and an external expert with the World Bank. He has published articles and books in the areas of quantitative Finance and also of financial crime mechanisms. In addition, he focuses on the subject of Ethics and Finance. At the University of Zurich, he is member of the Board of the Graduate Programme for interdisciplinary Research in Ethics and co-organizer of the Ethical Finance Research Series. He is also member of the advisory Board of Finance & Common Good/Bien Commun. Marc Chesney holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Geneva and obtained his Habilitation from the Sorbonne University.

For the last 26 years Roberto Delgado Gallart has carried out dedicated social work with some of the most vulnerable social groups in Mexico and has trained many generations of new social workers on Mexico. This work won him the National Altruism Prize in 2004, bestowed by the Mexican Association of Private Welfare Institutions (l’Asociación Mexicana de Instituciones de Asistencia Privada). He also developed the first postgraduate programme in Social Responsibility in Latin America. He is the founder of Latin American Centre for Social Responsibility of the University of Anáhuac where he created the Diploma in Administration of Institutions and Social Welfare (Diplomado de Administración de Instituciones de Asistencia Social). This diploma course is also available in the groups in Cancún, Cozumel, León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Xalapa, Quintana Roo, and Torreón. This course has now been run for Twenty-three successive years. Roberto Delgado Gallart has also received recognition such as the Latin American Prize for Educational Excellence (Premio Iberoamericano a la Excelencia Educativa) in Peru in 2004 as well as many other awards and over 200 different diplomas and degrees.

Prof. Paul H. Dembinski is the initiator and Director of the Foundation of the Observatoire de la Finance. The mission of the Observatoire de la Finance is to promote awareness of ethical concerns in financial activities and the financial sector. Paul H. Dembinski is the founder and editor of the quarterly bilingual journal entitled Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun. 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 University of Fribourg where he teaches International Competition and Strategy.

Eduard Dommen is a specialist in economic ethics. He is past President of the Scientific Committee of the Swiss Network of International Studies (www.ruig-gian.org) and is currently a member of the Scientific Committee of the Swiss Network of International Studies (www.snis.ch). He is a member of the Actares association Shareholders for a sustainable economy (www.actares.ch), and member of the editorial board of the review Finance and the Common Good/Bien Commun. He was a founder member of the Ethics Committee of the Swiss Alternative Bank (Banque Alternative Suisse) and a member of the Council of the Caisse Publique des Prêts Contre Garantie as well as a member of the Council of the RAFAD Foundation, an institution that guarantees micro-credit. Eduard Dommen has been a university lecturer, but has spent most of his career before he retired as UNCTAD investigator. He written and compiled several books on the subject of economic ethics.

Fernando Flores Maio, sociologist and journalist, contributor and columnist for several Argentine newspapers, was since 1990 director of the "Business Challenge" symposia, in Argentina, in France at the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique latine and in Coface. Since 2001, he is the founder and director of the Ecumenical Social Forum, which disseminates the concept of social responsibility, relizes ethical campaigns, and rescues core values with symposia in Latin America. Fernando Flores Maio is the director of the Open Chair of Social Responsibility and Citizenship, which began in 2002 in Argentina with the help of Georgetown University, and later from other universities including the University of Salamanca and the Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid. He organized presentations at the Instituto Italo Latinoamericano in Rome and at the Gregorian University and he is the author of several essays, including "Los hippies-Introducción", "Rebelión Juvenil y Cambio Social" y "Comunismo o Reino de Dios".

After a brief career in the field of Civil Engineering, Filomeno Mira Candel joined MAPFRE Insurance Group in late 1970 as risk prevention engineer and has since held various senior positions in the Group. He is currently Vice President of the Board of the Fundación MAPFRE, the main shareholder in the new MAPFRE, SA. After retiring from management positions, he remains a member of the Board of Directors of MAPFRE SA and other Group companies of MAPFRE. Until May 2009, he was a member of the Board of the Geneva Association and he is currently a Member of Honor of the same. He serves on the Board of the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca. He was President of the Insurance Commission of the Chamber of Commerce of Paris from 1994 to 1997, and Chairman of the AISAM (International Association of Mutual Insurance Companies) for the period 2002-2004.

After working as Assistant in the Department of political economy of the University of Geneva, Pal-André Sanglard was an economist in the Federal Department of foreign economic affairs. From 1978-1979 he was a research fellow at Stanford University and MIT. In 1979 he was nominated as head of Public Finance of the Canton of Jura, and since 1982 he has been a lecturer in public finance in Geneva University. From 1984-1989 he was a member of the executive committee of the World Economic Forum. Since 1989, Paul-André Sanglard has been an independent economist. He is currently President of the Board of the Banque Cantonale du Jura in Porrentruy as well as member of several other Boards. Paul-André Sanglard is also a member of the Board of the Foundation of the Observatoire de la Finance.

Leire San Jose is a professor of finance at the University of the Basque Country [UPV / EHU] Bilbao (www.ehu.es) and visiting scholar at the University of Huddersfield (UK) (www.hud.ac.uk) where she is a member of the Financial Ethics and Governance Research Group (FEGReG). His doctoral thesis which examines the development of new technologies in the cash management has gained the distinction of Summa Cum Laude unanimously and received a special prize. Leire San Jose is also specialized in social economy. She was president of the Scientific Committee of the XVII Congress of the European Business Ethics Network Spain in 2010. Currently, she combines her academic interests and research in the field of corporate finance, cash flow management in the short term, with themes of ethics and corporate social responsibility. Leire San Jose has also received the first Robin Cosgrove Prize for Ethics in Finance at the first ibero-american edition sponsored by MAPFRE.

Simão Davi Silber has a doctorate in Economy and is professor at the Faculty of Economy, Business and Accounting of the University of Sao Paulo. For the last 18 years Simão Davi Silber has successively held the post of Research Coordinator (1991-1994), then Head of Research (1995-1999), followed by that of President Director of FIPE, the Foundation for Economic Research (Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas) from1999-2003. He is currently member of the Board of FIPE. Since 2007 he has also been a member of the Conseil Supérieur d’Etudes Avancées – FIESP. He most recent publication (together with Marcos S. Jank) is on the subject of Comparative Trade Practice: Performance and Organisational Models (Políticas Comerciais Comparadas: Desempenho e Modelos Organizacionais, Editora Saraiva, 2007).

Domingo Sugranyes graduated from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, in 1969. He was General Secretary of the International Christian Union of Business Executives (UNIAPAC), between 1973 and 1981. He joined MAPFRE, Spain's leading insurance group in 1981. He was active in the international development of the group in Latin America and in Reinsurance worldwide. From 1989 to 2007 he was in charge of the group's listed holding company and member of the group's executive. After retiring from executive positions he remains on the Board of the MAPFRE Foundation and of several group companies. As complementary activities, Domingo Sugranyes was President of UNIAPAC from 1997/2000 and vice-chairman of the Board of Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation, a Vatican Center for Christian Social Teaching.