| Professor Roger Steare FRSA |
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| Born | 10 March 1958 Brighton, Sussex, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Bedford College, University of London |
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| www.rogersteare.com | |
Roger Steare (born 10 March 1958 in Brighton, England), is a British ethicist, corporate philosopher, consultant, speaker and author.
His father was a Methodist preacher and later a non-stipendiary Anglican priest. Steare read History at Bedford College, University of London, (1976-1979) and elected to read the History of Western Philosophy with Conrad Russell.
Steare is Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics, and Corporate Philosopher in Residence at the Cass Business School in London. He teaches on the Executive MBA Programs as well as consulting with external corporate clients through Cass Executive Education.[1]
He is a fellow of the cross-party policy think tank, ResPublica[2][3] founded by Phillip Blond in 2009. Steare's essay on The Power of Love in Business was included in ResPublica's "Changing The Debate: The Ideas Redefining Britain".[4]
Steare was a member of the Expert Drafting Committee for Rights and Humanity, invited by the British Government to prepare recommendations for the G20 London Summit in April 2009.[5][6][7]
In collaboration with Athens-based chartered psychologist Pavlos Stamboulides, Steare conducts empirical research on moral character, judgement and behaviour. Some of this research was published in The Times in October 2008, in a speech by Hector Sants of the Financial Services Authority in 2010[8] and by PwC UK in 2010.[9]
Steare is the author of Ethicability, first published in 2006 and now in its 3rd edition.[10] He is a regular contributor to the FT and to Chartered Banker magazine in which he challenges the "dysfunctional totalitarian construct" of modern corporations.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[5][6][11][12]
Steare has developed programs in ethics and corporate responsibility for organizations including BP, Citigroup, HSBC, PwC [13] and the Serious Fraud Office.[14]
Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, BP incorporated Steare's ethicability RIGHT framework for ethical decision-making into the BP 2011 Code of Conduct.[15]