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Global Finance Towards a New Global Reference Currency / Part 2

Part 2 of the Workshop B1 : Global Finance Towards a New Global Reference Currency held at the Global Ethics Forum 2012 on the 29th of June 2012.
Part 1: http://globethicsnet.podbean.com/2012/07/21/global-finance-towards-a-new-global-reference-currency-part-1/

Global Finance Towards a New Global Reference Currency / Part 1

This is the complete audio (Part 1 and Part 2) of the Workshop B1 : Global Finance Towards a New Global Reference Currency held at the Global Ethics Forum 2012 on the 29th of June 2012, International Conference Center Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
The financial crisis, the debt crisis, the Euro crisis and imbalances in currency exchange rates between the North and South show the need for a new currency system. What will the currency system be “after the dollar”?
What could be a fair global reference currency, not dominated by one dominant economy?
What are the political obstacles, the models and strategies to get political support for it?
Moderator: Jem Bendell, Prof, Director Lifeworth Consulting Australia/Switzerland
Presentation of Results and Recommendations of the project workgroup (by the moderator): Thomas Myers, certified public accountant, banking expert who has testified widely on subprime securities fraud, USA
Luc Guillory, President of Share France – Partage International, France
Myret Zaki, Deputy Editor in Chief of the magazine “Bilan”, Switzerland
Chong Zhang, Financial Expert, Director Generis Capital in China, China
Further documentation is available here.
Geneva. There is an urgent need to move away from the dollar as the world's reserve currency, in light of the financial meltdown marked by banking abuse and the ballooning US deficit, the 2012 Global Ethics Forum in Geneva has urged.
"Ethics in finance based on sustainability and justice needs a new reserve currency system," said Christoph Stückelberger, Executive Director and Founder of Globethics.net, a global network that promotes dialogue and research on ethics and values, and the organizer of the 28-30 June Forum.
"A global balanced reserve currency system must reflect the multipolar world and cannot be based on one national currency," said Stückelberger, a professor of ethics.
Experts on finance and business ethics attending the Forum warned of the consequences of maintaining the US dollar as the world reserve currency.
Click here to read the full media release.

Mervyn King: Final Remarks and Closure

This is the speech of Jugde Mervyn King as Co-Chair of the Global Ethics Forum. These are the comments after two days of rich discussions between more than 200 international participants.  The Global Ethics Forum 2012 took place in Geneva, Switzerland over four days from 27 to 30 June, including pre-meetings and a post-conference workshop.
"Responsible business connotes that there must be values"
"...be a good corporate citizen"
Mr. King is the Chair of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC)

Global Survey of Business Ethics in Teaching, Training and Research

Global Ethics Forum 2011 - This is the presentation of the results of the first global survey of Busines Ethics in Teaching, Training and Research carried out by Globethics.net. Its aim was to provide a global and comparative overview. Speakers are Prof. Deon Rossouw, CEO of the Ethics Institute of South Africa and Prof. Vasanthi Srinavasan, director of the Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship in the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
The PowerPoint presentation is available here: http://www.globethics.net/c/document_library/get_file?p_l_id=4049898&folderId=4049962&name=DLFE-13211.pdf