Seminar Friday 17 February 2012
Climate Change: the Durban deal. Views from inside the negotiations - a seminar presentation led by Dr Adrian Macey with participation by members of the New Zealand negotiating team at Durban
VENUE: Government Building, Lecture Theatre One
TIME: 12.30pm - 1.30pm

New Zealand had a prominent role at the Conference of the Parties in Durban late last year, both in brokering solutions and coming up with ideas.  The seminar will discuss the Durban results, and assess the prospects of the international negotiations up to 2020, including the issues of most interest to New Zealand.

Dr Adrian Macey was New Zealand's first climate change ambassador from 2006-2010, and has wide experience of multilateral negotiations, including the Uruguay and Doha rounds of the GATT/WTO. In 2011 he was the Chair of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations. He is a Senior Associate of the Institute of Policy Studies, School of Government, Victoria University.

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Workshop Friday 30 March 2012
Ethics at Work: Challenges and opportunities in working ethically in the public, corporate, professional and voluntary sectors - an all - day workshop led by
Simon Longstaff of St James Ethics Centre, Sydney
VENUE: Loaves and Fishes, Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, Hill St, Wellington
8.45am - 4.45pm

Sponsored by IPS,School of Government at VUW, the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, St Peter's on Willis and ‘Faith in the City’

To register contact ips@vuw.ac.nz or (04) 463 5307
Workshop cost: $225 (including teas and lunch)
There are a limited number of reduced cost places for the voluntary sector.

This workshop is designed for leaders and future leaders in the public, corporate, professional and voluntary sectors.

In the first part of the workshop, Dr Longstaff will provide an overview of the challenges and opportunities in organisational ethics, and this will be supplemented by insights from the local Wellington and New Zealand scene. In the second part, he will offer a framework for the implementation or further development of ethical practice in participants’ own organizations. He sees good leadership as defining a culture of 'common intent' rather than mere compliance.

Simon Longstaff’s distinguished career includes being named as one of ‘True Leaders’ for the 21st century by the Australian Financial Review’s ‘Boss’ magazine noting "I don’t know one CEO or chairman in corporate Australia who has not worked with Simon Longstaff".
Dr Longstaff has a PhD in Philosophy from Cambridge University. 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 a BHP subsidiary, lectured at Cambridge University and consulted to the Cambridge Commonwealth and Overseas Trusts.

Dr Longstaff will also give a free lunchtime seminar from 12.30pm - 1.30pm in Wellington Cathedral - see below.

Read more about the work of St James Ethics Centre at http://www.ethics.org.au/

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Seminar Friday 30 March 2012
The Practice of Ethics in the Public and Private Sectors: A Case of Constructive Subversion - a seminar presentation by Simon Longstaff of St James Ethics Centre, Sydney
VENUE: Wellington Cathedral, Hill St, Wellington
TIME: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
No RSVP required - all welcome

hosted in association with Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, St Peter's on Willis and
‘Faith in the City’

Drawing on mainstream Western philosophical traditions, Dr Longstaff will provide an introduction to ethics as being both 'the architecture of choice' and the source of 'organizational DNA'. This introduction will involve a clarification of the distinct roles played by values and principles and be located In a wider discussion of what constitutes effective (ethical) leadership and the role of such leadership in defining a culture of 'common intent' rather than mere compliance.

Dr 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, lectured at Cambridge University and consulted to the Cambridge Commonwealth and Overseas Trusts.

His book Hard Cases, Tough Choices was published in 1997.

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Conference Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 April 2012
The Funding of Student Finance: Critical Issues and Policy Options
VENUE: Rutherford House, Bunny St, Wellington
See the website for further details
Download the flyer here