The Business Ethics Summit, held at the headquarters of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Vatican. Business and Church leaders, academics, and institutional stakeholders gathered at the Vatican’s Academy of Sciences on June 9, for a Business Ethics Summit discussion on how ethical and moral principles can be applied to the corporate environment.
“We tried to involve people from all different sectors of society – politicians, economists, professors, entrepreneurs,” said Fr Philip Larrey, Dean of the Philosophy Department at the Pontifical Lateran University, who helped organise the event. Among those taking part in the Summit was Scott O’Neil, CEO of Merlin Entertainments, who spoke at the first session of the event, which considered “key milestones business should adopt to transform and compete in the era of human economy. “I think that what’s happening in the world now is pushing CEOs, business leaders, executives – and in partnership with local governments, absolutely – to try to figure out how we’re going to operate together.