Professor Christine Cooper (Accounting and Finance) attended the Good Banking Summit on May 25 at the Human Rights Action centre in London. The summit was an invitation-only event which was organised by NEF (New Economics Foundation), and Compass (the UK's leading centre-left pressure group) in the light of an apparent return to business-as-usual in the financial sector.
Over 90 experts from 50 organisations attended the summit with the purpose of writing a report for publication and submission to the Independent Commission on Banking (Vickers' Commission). The summit opened with presentations from Will Hutton of the Work Foundation, Alex Brummer, City editor of the Daily Mail, and Emeritus Professor Victoria Chick from UCL. It was then followed by working group sessions and discussions held under the Chatham House rule.
Professor Cooper was also a plenary speaker on May 3 at the 2011 North American Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research (Concordia University, John Molson School of Business, Montreal, Canada), and she examined a PhD in Laval University (Quebec) on May 6. The title of the PhD was "Trois essais sur les formes contemporaines du pouvoir politique, social et économique de l'expertise."