Caux Initiatives of Business (CIB) launched the opening of its international conference, ‘Asia’s Relevance in a Globalizing World – Trust and Integrity in the New Leadership Model’ at Asia Plateau, Panchgani. A unique feature of this conference lies in the growing partnership between Japan and India in a globalized world. Both these Asian countries are co-hosting and sponsoring this conference.

New book looks at trust and integrity in the global economy.

Mohamed Sahnoun, President of Initiatives of Change-International, in his closing speech at the conference 'Trust and Integrity in the Global economy', in Caux Switzerland, today called for efforts to tackle the root causes of conflict.

Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy is the theme of the second summer conference in Caux this year. With 241 participants from 52 countries it focuses on the challenges of an increasingly globalized economy – and the needs of humanity.

‘We must combat the reigning thought-patterns,’ said a French farmers’ leader, speaking in Caux, Switzerland today. Christiane Lambert, the first woman president of a French farmers’ union, pleaded for a logic of sustainable development and against a liberal fundamentalism, which deepens economic divides and runs against the integrity that is the theme of this summer’s Caux conferences.

The focus on short-term results in business is a disaster, according to Dr. J.J Irani, Director on the board of the giant Indian multi-national Tata

The focus on short-term results in business is a disaster, according to the head of an Indian industrial giant. Dr. J.J Irani, Director on the board of the giant Indian multi-national Tata, an empire of more than 80 companies, 32 of them publicly quoted, in fields from steel, tea, power generation, cars and trucks, chemicals, hotels, telecoms, software was giving the 4th Caux Lecture of the 2006 conference season on ‘The Importance of Trust and Integrity in Corporate Leadership in an Emerging Market’, in Caux, Switzerland, today.

Professor Berger's personal biography underlined the coherence of his message to the Caux session on ‘Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy’ that started yesterday.

Professor Guy Berger, from the School of media and journalism at Rhodes University in South Africa last month won the Nat Nakasa Award for ethics in journalism. At the time of apartheid in his country, Professor Berger spent three years in prison and then five years in exile – so his personal biography underlined the coherence of his message to the Caux – Initiatives of Change session on ‘Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy’ that started yesterday.

‘Ethicability—how to decide what’s right and find the courage to do it’ by Roger Steare