OU Ethics Centre launch

A good event yesterday to launch the OU's ethics centre. We had a diverse set of speakers in the morning and went on to a panel discussion that was one of the most interesting I've heard for a long time. I'm not a great fan of panels but the presentations were all interconnected and questions brought out some of those links and new ideas. The speakers were our new Chancellor David Puttnam, Catherine Cameron, co-author of the Stern Review on Climate Change and working with the consultancy Agulhas; Professor Brad Hooker, Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Reading and Sir John Drysdale, a member of the executive board of Transparency International UK, The Coalition Against Corruption. All were good but I was particularly inspired by Catherine's very clear and well argued points. I went on to run a workshop with her in the afternoon and besides learning a lot about the Stern Review, I found her conviction to do something about Climate Change very refreshing.