Dr Simon Longstaff, St James Ethics Centre

Dr Simon Longstaff has a PhD in Philosophy from Cambridge. Prior to becoming the inaugural executive director of St James Ethics Centre  in 1991, he worked in the Northern Territory in the Safety Department of BHP subsidiary, GEMCO, lectured at Cambridge University and consulted to the Cambridge Commonwealth and Overseas Trusts.

Dr Longstaff was inaugural President of The Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics and is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum. He is Chairman of Woolworths Limited Corporate Responsibility Panel, AMP Capital Socially Responsible Investment Advisory Committee and the International Advisory Board of the Genographic Project. Dr Longstaff also serves on the Australian Institute of Company Directors Corporate Governance Committee and BHP Billiton Forum on Corporate Responsibility, among others.

 

Most people have an intuitive grasp of what it means to have a conflict of interest. However, it should be observed that consideration of the nature of conflicts of interest is made complex by the fact that relatively subtle changes in relationships ... Read more