Peter N Lewis, Founder and Lead Consultant at Principled Consulting and Tania Ellis, author and business innovator, shared their views on moral challenges for the economy and their visions for future business principles at the Caux conference for Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy on Wednesday.

Suresh Vazirani grew up in a refugee camp, as his parents were victims of conflict between Pakistan and India. He is part of the Sinidi Community which his wife, Mala Vazirani, describes as 'addicted to working and finding solutions without expecting too much outside help’. Vazirani seems to fit this description perfectly.

The promising continent of Africa was well represented in the recently concluded Human Security Forum in Caux, Switzerland. We caught up with some of the participants to seek their thoughts and personal contribution in Human Security in their countries.

‘We lost sight of our values - with an “s” - in the rigorous focus on financial value,’ said Lady Susan Rice, the Managing Director of Lloyds Banking Group in Scotland, speaking today at a conference in Switzerland on ‘trust and integrity’. Rice is the first woman in Britain to head a national clearing bank, and Lloyds is now the largest banking group within the UK. Rice was speaking on ‘restoring trust in banking and financial services’ at the ‘Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy’ conference at the Initiatives of Change centre in Caux, Switzerland.

In an ever-increasingly interconnected and interdependent world, it seems fitting that partnership emerged as the common theme at the Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy (TIGE) Caux conference, at the “Global Integrity Initiative Launch” on Wednesday 18 July. Seven people, representing five different initiatives spoke about how their experience at last year’s TIGE conference inspired action in the past year.

In an ever-increasingly interconnected and interdependent world, it seems fitting that partnership emerged as the common theme at the Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy (TIGE) Caux conference, at the “Global Integrity Initiative Launch” on Wednesday 18 July. Seven people, representing five different initiatives spoke about how their experience at last year’s TIGE conference inspired action in the past year.

As financial scandals daily make the headlines in many countries – and not just in the business pages - Margaret Heffernan, well-known entrepreneur and author, opened the ‘Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy’ conference at the Initiatives of Change centre in Caux this evening. She expressed ‘a tremendous sense of urgency’ about the need to ‘salvage our institutions from the infernal combustion of money, power and competition before it’s too late’.

Ambassador Mohamed Sahnoun, Founder and Chair of the Caux Forum for Human Security spoke yesterday at the close of the 5th annual meeting at the Initiatives of Change centre in Caux. He called for ‘a coalition of conscience that is capable of redirecting a society towards creative policies’.

Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia and two leading Aboriginals spoke last night about the processes of healing springing from Rudd’s public apology presented at the opening of parliament in 2008 to the ‘stolen generations’ of children forcibly removed from their families. Speaking with Rudd were Jackie Huggins, an Aboriginal spokesperson and historian and Daryle Rigney, the Dean of Indigenous Strategy and Engagement at Flinders University.

Can memory be healed? This was the question of the morning panel on Thursday, 12 July during the Caux Forum for Human Security. Jackie Huggins, Daphrose Barampama and Janet Jerulo discussed the subject of healing memory with a particular focus on forgiveness.