Ethics: In Real Time In the Real World

Below you will find archives of interviews Susan Liautaud has hosted with a number of business, non-profit, and thought leaders concerned with ethics, part of our series called “Ethics: In Real Time In the Real World.” They each respond to the Top Nine Questions that we think probe some of the most urgent, globally relevant ethics matters. We welcome your comments at the bottom of each interview.

Interviews

• Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, President of the French data protection authority or CNIL and Chair of the EU Working Party (WP29) on personal data protection
  Recent topics in the news such as the European Union’s data protection regulation and the “right to be forgotten” or “delisted” are changing the way we view data protection and notions of privacy. Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin is the President of the French Data Protection authority (“Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés”). She has been a ...
• Baroness Martha Lane Fox, CBE – UK digital access pioneer, entrepreneur, crossbench peer
  Martha Lane Fox co-founded Europe’s largest travel and leisure website lastminute.com with Brent Hoberman in 1998, they took it public in 2000 and sold it in 2005. Martha was appointed a crossbench peer in the House of Lords in March 2013. She is currently chair of Go On UK, a coalition of public and private ...
• Wilson Abney, Former Chief Counsel to the US Senate Ethics Committee and Senior Counsel in the establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
  Wilson Abney has been an attorney working in public service ethics for more than forty years. He served as Counsel, Chief Counsel, and Staff Director to the United States Senate Ethics Committee from 1980-1982. During that time he was also selected to serve as counsel to the Senate Impeachment Trial Committee for the trial of Federal ...
• Badr Jafar, Chief Executive of Crescent Enterprises and Founder of the Pearl Initiative
  Badr Jafar is the Chief Executive of Crescent Enterprises, a diversified conglomerate based out of the UAE, and is the Founder of the Pearl Initiative, a non-profit initiative working to create a corporate culture of transparency and transparency in the Gulf Region of the Middle East. You can follow him on Twitter @BadrJafar. What is the ...
• Philip J. Jennings, UNI Global Union, General Secretary
  Philip J. Jennings has been General Secretary of UNI Global Union since its creation. From 1997, Philip worked to create a new global union spanning skills and services. The result was the creation of UNI Global Union on 1 January 2000. [Information quoted from UNI Global Union web site. For further biographical information about Philip J. ...
• Carl Pascarella, Executive Advisor, TPG Capital
  Carl Pascarella is Executive Advisor at TPG Capital. “Mr. Pascarella recently retired as President & Chief Executive Officer of Visa U.S.A. Inc., after twelve years of service. Before assuming that position, he was President & CEO of Visa Asia Pacific Limited Region and Director of the Asia Pacific Regional Board. Before joining Visa, Mr. Pascarella was ...
• René Ricol, Founder, Ricol, Lasteyrie & Associés
  Financial advising expert, former judiciary expert at the cour de cassation, René Ricol has been contributing for more than 35 years to the development and professionalization of corporate advising services for growth and performance. He is a Grand Officier de l’Ordre du Mérite and of the Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur. In 1987, he ...
• Baroness Frances D’Souza
  Baroness Frances D’Souza is Lord Speaker of the House of Lords What is the most important ethical lesson you have learned (either personally or professionally)? That basic individual rights are not and should not be culturally relative but universal. What is the most shocking corporate ethics matter you have seen in the news recently? Non-profit sector? Why? It’s not ...
• Dr Sania Nishtar, Founder and President, Heartfile
  Pakistan’s first female cardiologist, Dr Sania Nishtar is a global health expert and a proponent of health reform. She is founder of many health institutions in Pakistan—the NGO think tank Heartfile, Pakistan’s Health Policy Forum and Heartfile Health Financing. Internationally, she is a member of many Expert Working Groups and Task Forces of the World Health ...
• Glen Moreno, Chairman of Pearson PLC
  Glen Moreno is chairman of Pearson, deputy chairman of the Financial Reporting Council and a director of Fidelity International. Until May 2012 he was deputy chairman and senior independent director of Lloyds Banking Group. Until mid 2009 he was senior independent director of Man Group plc and acting chairman of UKFI. From 1987 to 1991 he was chief ...
• Fred Krupp, CEO of Environmental Defense Fund
  In his 28 years as CEO of Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp has been widely recognized as a pioneer in harnessing market forces for environmental ends, starting with the 1990 market-based acid rain reduction plan praised by The Economist as the decade’s “greatest green success story.” Krupp also broke new ground by engaging companies to ...
• Sébastien Bazin, Managing Director Europe and CEO of Colony Capital SAS
  Colony Capital, LLC is a privately held independent global real estate investment firm founded in 1991 by Thomas J. Barrack, Jr. The Firm and its affiliates have an extensive global footprint and corresponding infrastructure, with over 400 employees operating in a total of 12 offices in the following nine countries: China, France, Italy, Lebanon, South ...
• Dr. Philip Zimbardo, Psychology Professor Emeritus at Stanford University
  This interview was a rare and inspirational privilege to speak with world-renowned psychologist and Stanford Emeritus Professor Phil Zimbardo (most recently Founder and President of the Heroic Imagination Project), together with Brooke Deterline, Director of Corporate Consulting for the Heroic Imagination Project. The central theme: How Dr. Zimbardo’s over 40 years of ground-breaking and history-changing ...
• Guerrino De Luca, CEO and Chairman of Logitech
  Guerrino De Luca is chairman of the board and chief executive office of Logitech since July 2011. He was Logitech’s president and chief executive office from 1998 to 2007, and its chairman from 2008 to 2011. During his tenure as Logitech’s executive leader, the company posted nine consecutive years of record sales and profits as ...

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