The Jury of the Robin Cosgrove Prize
This Jury has been delegated by the organisers with the task of selecting the most meritorious contributions frome the eligible candidates and of designating the prizewinners for the Robin Cosgrove Prize.
The Jury is composed of eminent persons who sit in their private capacity on a pro bono basis.
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.
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 non-profit think-tank, supported by 65 City
institutions, that looks at the future of the global financial system. The
CSFI was set up 13 years ago, and has since published three books and around
80 reports. More significantly, it has organized well over 750 round-tables
on issues of pressing interest in the financial services sector including
EMU, the single market, the Internet, small business finance, high-tech
start-ups, microfinance and regulation. Andrew 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. Andrew Hilton has a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania,
an MBA from Wharton and an MA from New College, Oxford. He was appointed
OBE in 2005.
Mr
Peter Gakunu is 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.
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 the partner in charge of the
Geneva office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is 40 years old, 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 fifteen years of working experience, of which three in Paris
and two in New York. PricewaterhouseCoopers, the global Assurance, Advisory
and Tax and Legal Services leading firm, employs close to 300 people in
Geneva in those three service lines.
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
latest 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.
Since 1989 he is in charge of the group's listed holding company and member
of the group's executive. As complementary activities, Domingo Sugranyes
was President of UNIAPAC from 1997/2000 and presently a member of the Board
of Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation, a Vatican Center for Christian
Social Teaching.
Canon
Justin Welby was previously a senior executive in a UK oil
company, before ordination in the Church of England. He has written on ethics
and finance, and is presently responsible for the reconciliation work of
Coventry Cathedral, travelling widely in Africa and the Middle East.