Ethics and Responsibility in Finance

Paul H. Dembinski holds the Chair of International Strategy and Competition at Switzerland’s University of Fribourg. He has a doctorate in political economy (1982) from the University of Geneva, where he began his teaching career, later (1991) becoming a tenured associate professor at the University of Fribourg. In 1996 he launched the Observatoire de la Finance Foundation in Geneva (www.obsfin.ch) with the aim of encouraging the financial sector to take more account of the common good. He is still its director, and is chair of the international ’Ethics & Trust in Finance Prize’, which will be awarded for the sixth time in 2017. He also edits the bilingual journal Finance & the Common Good/Finance & Bien Commun. Paul H. Dembinski is on the board of directors of Rentes Genevoises (public annuity company), which he has chaired since 2012.