Project Analysis
The Centre has undertaken a number of projects for external bodies including an analysis of pressures facing chartered accountants in business for the London Society of Chartered Accountants and a series of Research Reports for a leading Spanish bank.

Conferences in Cambridge & London
Centre for Business and Public Sector Ethics has held numerous international Conferences since 1988 in Cambridge, and in other locations, attended by academics, government leaders, and top businessmen.

Seminars
The Centre has hosted 6 major Seminars in Cambridge since 1995 for delegations from the People's Republic of China and also sent a representative to Seminars organised by the University of Guelph, Canada; the British Embassy, Madrid; the Institute of Directors, City of London branch; The British Council; Wilton Park; and the British Assn. for Central and Eastern Europe.

Advice/Consultancy
We can assist business companies and Governments globally with consultancy/advisory services. The Centre has already given specialist advice to the Cadbury Committee on Corporate Governance; The UK Law Commission; The House of Lords; the UK Committee on Standards in Public Life (then the Nolan Committee); and the US President's Ethics Law Reform Commission among others.

Visitors to Cambridge
Leading Universities, distinguished business executives and government officials have visited the Centre in Cambridge, including from the Body Shop; Bovince Ltd.; Caterpillar Inc. USA; HM Treasury; the UK Cabinet Office; the Hon Malcolm Wilkey of USA and Chile, South America; INSEAD; and the University of Tartu, Ulikool, Estonia.

Delegates from the People's
Republic of China at a Centre
Seminar in Cambridge

United States Of America, Washington DC November 1994
The Centre's Director addressed a 90 nation international Conference on 'Ethics in Government' hosted by the US Federal Government in 1994.

Australia, Brisbane, Queensland,
August 1996
Dr Rosamund Thomas gave a keynote address to an international Conference hosted by the State Government of Queensland in 1996.

India and Pakistan, November 1997
In association with the British High Commission, New Delhi, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office London, and the British Council, India, the Centre's Director Dr Thomas undertook an extensive Lecture tour of Universities, public sector bodies and chambers of commerce in India and Pakistan.

She also gave an address to the International Bar Association international Conference, New Delhi, 1997, on 'Lessons to be learnt from the Bhopal Disaster and other Industrial Accidents'.

European Commission, Brussels,
May 1999
Dr Rosamund Thomas was a keynote speaker to the European Commission Conference on the subject of 'Environmental Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: Perspectives for the Future'.

Canada, International Political Science Association Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, August 2000
The Centre's Director was elected Co-Chair of the IPSA Research Group RC48. In that capacity Rosamund Thomas chaired sessions and acted as Commentator alongside Professor R D Sharma and Professor F W Riggs.

Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, September 2000
Dr Rosamund Thomas was a speaker at the international Conference on 'Ethics in the Public Sector' attended by the then Prime Minister of Canada the Hon. Jean Chrétien. Her paper was published later in the US Journal 'Public Integrity' of the American Society for Public Administration, Summer 2001.

Madrid, Spain, October & November 2001
The Centre's Director addressed senior executives and students in Madrid, Spain on 'Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics in Europe' in association with BBVA, ZEIA, the Spanish Railways, Renfe, and the University Complutense, Madrid.

Chen Liangyu (Mayor of Shanghai) and Patricia Hewitt (Secretary of State for Trade and Industry) attended the CEO Forum. The participants were:

Bill Alexander, Thames Water; Peter Batey, APCO Shanghai Office; Dr. Albert Bert Bennet, CEIBS; Sir David Brown, Motorola; Lance Browne, Standard Chartered Bank; Willem Burgers, CEIBS; Sir Colin Campbell, Nottingham University; Hong Chen, Shanghai Guangdian; Peter De Wit, Shell Gas & Power Regional Director; Sir John Egan, CBI; Vernon Ellis, Accenture; Mark Ferguson, Manchester University; Jianhua Fu, Bank of Shanghai; Fiona Gilmore, Springpoint; Ian Gow, Nottingham University Business School; Simon Heale, London Metal Exchange; Yongzheng Hui, Shanghai Innovation Research Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Christopher Hum, British Ambassador; Digby Jones, CBI; Roy Leighton, Credit Lyonnais; Gong Li, Accenture; Ji Liu, CEIBS; Yongxing Liu, East Hope Group; Liz Padmore, Accenture; Yongming Lu, Hua Lian Group; Jack Ma Yun, Alibaba.com; Guoqiang Ma, Bao Steel; William Molbey, CEIBS; Peter Nightingale, China - Britain Business Council; Paul Sizeland, British Consul General Shanghai; Wenyan Ren, Shanghai Federation of Industry and Commerce; Steve Ridgeway, Virgin Atlantic; Ian Rushby, BP Group; Robin Saxby, ARM Holdings, Wenqing Shen, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Andrew Summers, Design Council; Rosamund Thomas, Cambridge; Rosalie Tung, CEIBS; BoWang, Accenture; Jiafen Wang, Brightness Dairies; Andrew Williams, Jardines Group; David Wood, Symbian; Shengwu Xie, Jiaotong University; Fujia Yang, Fudan University; Guohua Zhang, CEIBS; Linde Zhang, Shanghai Telecom; Peiping Zhang, CCPIT; Yixing Zhang, Shanghai Municipal Government; Huajun Zhong, Friendship Group; Congjiu Zhu, Shanghai Stock Exchange; Linchu Zhu, Development Research Centre of Shanghai Municipal Government; Xiaoming Zhu, Shanghai Municipal Government

Government Ethics provides the world for the first time with a unique and international body of knowledge on ethics in Government and the public sector. This book contains the views of distinguished experts in Government and academia and includes codes of conduct for Government officials, issues of official secrecy, privacy and military and police ethics. It also discusses conceptual values like 'trust'.

This 'classic' book records the intellectual and practical developments in British public and business administration for the period 1900 - 1939, compared to American developments. The book has a foundation chapter on 'ethics' showing how UK Quaker companies, like Rowntree and Cadbury, set examples in 'corporate responsibility' in that era, many of which are relevant today. Other chapters cover policy-making, organisational theory and bureaucracy.