The Robin Cosgrove Prize is organized and managed under the supervision of the Observatoire de la Finance (Geneva) and Dr Carol Cosgrove Sacks.
Created
in 1996, the Observatoire de la Finance is a foundation where the financial
world can study and debate issues of individual and collective responsibility.
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. The Observatoire de la Finance does this in several ways: it publishes a bilingual review Finance & the Common Good / Bien Commun, it organises international meetings on “Ethics, Finance & Responsibility”, and it carries out discussions or working groups on topics like microfinance and ethical dilemmas in financial activities.
For more information, please visit the Observatoire’s website.
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.
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 University of Fribourg
where he teaches International Competition and Strategy.