Some comments from previous Prize winners
Clare Payne, winner, 2007
Clare Payne works for Macquarie Bank in Sydney, Australia. Since winning the Prize, she has been promoted in Macquarie Bank asd is now Head of the Integrity Office,focusing on compliance issues. She sees the Prize as a major step in her career. Clare has published articles via the St James Ethics Centre , which is one of the most well-known groups supporting "ethics good practice" in the world.
The first two articles are on the following topics:
- Do banks do good things?
- The ethics of down-sizing in the Banking and Finance Industry.
Clare was not able to be at the 2010 London launch due to the ash cloud, but she sent us this video.
Elise Pellerin, winner, 2009
Elise decided to participate in the competition for the Second Edition of the Robin Cosgrove Prize because she thought that it would be a fascinating intellectual challenge, and because she admired the jury’s members profiles. Winning the Prize has meant a lot for her status as an Ethics Analyst at Ethea Gestion, a French investment management enterprise, specialising in "values based" investing.
Marie Crepin, winner 2009
Marie also works at Ethiea Gestion in its commercial development, particularly concerning investment of funds from the religious congregations. Marie decided to participate in the Second Edition of the Robin Cosgrove Prize because she thought that the victory could have positive consequences for her company and would give her greater recognition in the new career area of "ethical investing".
Geoffrey K See, winner 2009
Concerning his victory at the Robin Cosgrove Prize, Geoffrey said “I chose to study how internationalization, institutions and individuals all contribute to a system of ethics as I believe that institutions and individuals are both important units of analysis in understanding why ethical finance fails. At the same time, the international dimension of financial firms also redefines what is ethical, and I wanted to link it up with the intra-country analysis.” For Geoffrey, winning the Prize has opened doors for new opportunities and enabled him to publish an article on ethical investing in the Journal of Business Ethics and to help set up the Network for Sustainable Financial Management (http://www.sustainablefinancialmarkets.net/)
Meredith Benton, second prize winner, 2009
Meredith commented “I was personally and professionally interested in how or why people
prioritize or lower their personal values or morals in the workplace. While I had never studies psychology, the Prize incentivized me to look into this topic in a more structured way.” She has completed her MBA at INSEAD and now seeks employment in fund management in London or New York.
