Ethics and Socially Responsible Investment

William Ransome, Research Fellow and Program Director for Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility at the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance (Griffith University) received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Queensland in 2004, and has wide-ranging interests in metaethics, ethical theory and applied ethics. Charles Sampford is Director of the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (IEGL) - a joint initiative of the United Nations University, Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology and the Australian National University. Educated at Melbourne and Oxford, he became the Foundation Dean of Law at Griffith University in 1991. In 1994, he was appointed the Foundation Director of ARC Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance. Since October 2004, he has been Foundation Director of IEGL, one of 23 academic elements in the United Nations University that brings together the Key Centre at Griffith University, QUT's Centre for Law and Justice and ANU's Centre for International and Public Law. At the same time he is Convenor of the ARC Governance Research Network and President of an international ethics NGO. Professor Sampford has written eighty articles and chapters in Australian and foreign journals and collections ranging through law, legal education and applied ethics and has completed nineteen books and edited collections for international publishers.