Ethics and Sustainability in Banking and Finance

Professor Barbara Casu is the Head of the Faculty of Finance at Bayes Business School, City, University of London (UK), and the Director of the Centre for Banking Research (CBR). Previously she held the role of Director of the Bayes Executive PhD Programme. Her main research interests are in empirical banking, payment systems, financial regulation, financial innovation, and corporate governance. Barbara has published widely, with over 50 publications in peer reviewed Journals. She has also written the popular textbook “Introduction to Banking” (Pearson FT), which is widely adopted for banking courses across the world. She has recently co-edited the Palgrave Handbook of European Banking. Outside academia, Professor Casu has been a consultant/visiting researcher at several organizations, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF); the European Commission (EC); the South African Reserve Bank (SARB); Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS); the Building Societies Association (BSA).

Professor Mollie Painter is an international scholar specializing in business ethics, CSR, sustainability and responsible leadership. She has held academic positions in South Africa, the USA, the UK, and Slovenia. She currently heads up the Responsible and Sustainable Business Lab (RSB Lab) in Nottingham, and is an Extraordinary Professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, where she co-directs GIBS’ Centre for Business Ethics. Mollie’s most recent research focuses on sustainability, organisational culture, leadership, and ethics within complex organisational environments. As a philosopher by training, her trademark is bringing insights from 20th century and contemporary philosophy to management and organisational studies. She has authored and edited a number of books: Business Ethics as Practice (Cambridge University Press), Ethics in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Global Perspectives, co-edited with Laura Spence (Springer), and Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy, co-edited with René ten Bos (Cambridge University Press),.”Gender Leadership and Organisation”, co-edited book with Patricia Werhane (Springer).