Corporate ethics

David Jackman

Course leader

David Jackman; pioneer in developing ethics and values in mainstream corporate culture. As the first Head of Business Ethics and Education at the Financial Services Authority (FSA) he established an Ethical Framework for Financial Services that formed the basis for major initiatives on ethics and outcome based regulation and Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) and elements of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), now mainstream in the UK and followed in many overseas jurisdictions eg Singapore.

Chair and founder of the Ethics Foundation, which offers the Ethics Mark® across all business sectors; Chair of the British Standards Committee on Sustainable Development, author of BS8900 and currently developing a standard for Sustainable Communities - BS8904. 1999 - 2010, Chair of the British Standards Committee on Financial Services and co - author of ISO 22222 for Personal Financial Planning. Now working on a comparable standard for compliance.

First CEO of the Financial Services Skills Council, first Head of Education at the Securities Institute and pioneering roles at London Stock Exchange / SFA and IMRO. Continues to work to bring ethics education and new professional standards to compulsory qualifications and cross-sector education, including operation functions.

UK Committee for ISO 26000 Social Responsibility standard published in 2010. Contributed to Higgs and Walker Reviews, FORGE and IBE. Expert adviser to Commission for Sustainable London 2012.

In 2010 Chairman of Jersey International Business School

From 2010 Non-Executive Director for Hornbuckle Mitchell (SIPP provider)

David lectures in corporate ethics and governance and a consultant, conference speaker, author and media commentator on ethics, compliance, governance and sustainable development across all sectors in the UK and internationally.