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IE Students Talk Ethics and Integrity at First Challenge

IE Students Talk Ethics and Integrity at First Challenge
The IE Ethics and Compliance Club challenges students with real-world ethical decision making.

The IE Ethics and Compliance Club hosted the first “Ethics and Integrity Challenge 2020,” featuring business executives focused on ethics and pushing participants with real-world decision-making problems on a professional level.

IE Business School students participate in the Ethics and Compliance club, backed by IE Campus Life and created in February 2020 to encourage discussion about ethical inclusivity within the workplace.

“Ethics is what will guide you and make you reflect on what you’re going to do based on your values and principles, so this is something that everyone can work on,” says Diane Valat, president of the IE Ethics and Compliance club.

The challenge itself allowed more than 50 participants to separate into groups and work together to solve the ethical challenges presented that addressed topics such as fairness, inclusivity, conflicts of interest, and others.

“The idea that our past coordinators had in mind was how to connect every single profession, every single career and make young professionals and students think about their role in ethics and how business practices affect their everyday lives.”
Victoria Luján, the Vice-President of the club

The panel of judges boasted an array of impressive professionals, including: Klaus Moosmayer, the Chief Ethics, Risk and Compliance Officer for Novartis Switzerland; Anne-Violaine Monnié-Agazzi, Group Ethics Officer at Capgemini in France; José M. Cerdeira, the Chief Compliance Officer at the Spain headquarters for American Express; María Hernández, a partner at Eversheds Sutherland Nicea in Spain; and, Newman Debs, General Counsel for Unilever Latin America.

To top it off, the club hosted guest speakers Robert Chesnut, the former Chief Ethics officer at Airbnb and Soledad Atienza, the current Dean of IE Law School.

“As a club, it’s really great for us to expand and to try and reach as many people as we can, really notwithstanding the type of disciplines you’re studying or the type of degree they’re doing, or the amount of experience that they have with Ethics and Compliance,” according to Valat.

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