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22 - Closing session: how to achieve a new world economic and financial order?
Deon ROSSOUW - President - International Society of Business, Ethics and Economics (South Africa)
Deon ROSSOUW, an expert in business ethics, heads the Philosophy Department at Pretoria University. He is President of the International Society of Business, Ethics and Economics (ISBEE), that gathers professionals from various sectors (management,economy, law, philosophy, human resources, marketing, finance, etc).
He was there at 2007 and 2008 World Forum Lille, and is also a member of the college of experts.
Download his PowerPoint presentation: Powerpoint Deon ROSSOUW
Luc VAN LIEDEKERKE - President - EBEN (European Business Ethics Network) (Belgium)
Luc Van Liedekerke is a teacher and the Co-director of the Centre for Economics and Ethics at the University of Leuven.
He is the President of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN), a network developed in some 40 European countries that gathers companies, civil servants and academics. It aims at promoting business ethics and boosting exchanges of experiences on ethical problems happening within European companies.
He was there at 2007 and 2008 World Forum Lille, and is also a member of the college of experts.
Geert DEMUIJNCK – Professor of Business Ethics - EDHEC Business School (France)
Professor of Business Ethics at EDHEC Business School, Geert DEMUIJNCK is the Coordinator of the World Forum Lille's college of experts since 2007.
CAO Dewang - Chairman of Fuyao Glass Industry Group - "Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2009"
Fuyao Glass is China’s leading automotive glass manufacturer, with more than half of the overall domestic market and more than 10,000 employees. The company is also an approved original equipment manufacturer for automakers based around the globe, including Audi, Hyundai, Volvo and Ford.
Its founder and chairman, CAO Dewang emerged from humble beginnings to become one of China’s most successful entrepreneurs. He started his own business at the age of 16, peddling cut tobacco. He also worked as a farmer, chef and fruit seller. In 1976 Cao began work as a merchandiser for the Fuqing Gao Shan Special Glass Factory. In 1983 the factory was making a loss and the local authority didn’t have the means to turn the business around. Cao was asked to take over the factory and had it turning a profit within a year.
He created Fuyao Glass in 1987, which is 20 years later a great economic success, but also a pioneer in corporate governance, being one of the first companies in China to introduce independent directors to its board. He is also a well-known philanthropist in China. He announced that he will donate this year nearly 60% of his interest in Fuyao, valued at more than €300 million, to a newly established charitable foundation. This represents one of the largest ever charitable donations by a Chinese Mainland entrepreneur.
CAO Dewang has been named the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2009, among entrepreneurs of 43 countries around the world.
