China to host world congress of business ethics

The world congress of the International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics (ISBEE) will be held in China from July 13 through 16, convening more than 300 the world's top experts from more than 30 countries.

The congress themed "Ethics, Innovation and Well-Being in Business and the Economy" will facilitate the international society to better understand China's efforts in business ethics and promote the country's researches in the field, according to Lu Xiaohe, executive director of the Business Ethics Research Center under the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

Distinguished experts, including Wang Zhan, president of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Wan Junren, president of the China Association of Ethics and professor at Beijing-based Tsinghua University, Georg Kell, former executive director of United Nations Global Compact, the world's largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative, and Lynn Sharpe Paine, senior associate dean from Harvard Business School, will give keynote speeches at the congress hosted by ISBEE in Shanghai.

The ISBEE, founded in 1989, is the first worldwide professional association dedicated to the research of business, economics and ethics, and is the most influential in the field. The congress, which has been held every four years since 1996, is dubbed "the Olympics of business ethics".