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Together For the Common Good talks - Videos


A Public discussion took place at St Michael's Cornhill, City of London on 6 October. Organised by Together for the Common Good, in partnership with the Benedict XVI Centre at St Mary's University, Twickenham, the event was sponsored by CCLA and Social Stock Exchange. Chaired by James Featherby, the speakers Dr Sam Gregg, Fr Augusto Zampini Davies, Sian Ferguson and Fr Séamus Finn. To watch the talks, click on the links below.


Dr Samuel Gregg is research director at the Acton Institute. He has written and spoken extensively on questions of political economy, economic history, and natural law theory. He has a D.Phil. in moral philosophy and political economy from Oxford University. He is the author of several books, including On Ordered Liberty (2003), The Commercial Society (2007), The Modern Papacy (2009), and Wilhelm Röpke's Political Economy (2010), Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future (2013), and For God and Profit: How Banking and Finance can Serve the Common Good(2016). He has also written on the thought of St. Thomas More. He publishes in journals such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy; Journal of Markets & Morality; Economic Affairs; Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines; Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy; Oxford Analytica; Communio; Journal of Scottish Philosophy; University Bookman; Moreana; Foreign Affairs; and Policy. He is a regular writer of opinion-pieces which appear in publications such as the Wall Street Journal. In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

See Dr Gregg's talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h7JTGa2GBo

Fr Augusto Zampini Davies is CAFOD's theological adviser. Formerly a corporate lawyer, he trained as a moral theologian in Argentina. He holds a PhD in Theology and has conducted research on environmental ethics. He is a regular contributor to mainstream and Catholic media on Pope Francis and Catholic Social Teaching. An active participant in the Association of Teachers in Moral Theology of Great Britain, he is also a member of the Digby Stuart Research Centre for Religion, Society and Human Flourishing, the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain, the European Society of Catholic Theology, and the Sociedad Argentina de Teología. Augusto is an ad-hoc adviser to Cardinal Vincent Nichols on environmental issues and previously served as an assistant priest and chaplain in the poorest neighbourhoods of Greater Buenos Aires.

Fr Augusto Zampini Davies link to sequence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlD-xkELcLU

Sian Ferguson is the trust executive of three of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts (Ashden Trust, JJ Charitable Trust and Mark Leonard Trust). She also manages the Climate Change Collaboration--a group of four of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts formed in 2011 to support pilot and research projects to find ways of reducing CO2 emissions quickly. Sian has worked with the trusts and partners in the US and Europe to establish Europeans for Divest Invest. Sian has a background in Natural Science and 25 years' experience working in environmental sectors. She is also chair of the Yorkshire and Humber Forestry and Woodland Advisory Committee.

Sian Ferguson link to sequence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_LLBE_tl0s

Rev Séamus P. Finn, OMI is Chief of Faith Consistent Investing for the Oblate International Pastoral (OIP) Investment Trust www.oiptrust.org and remains as a consultant to the Justice Peace and Integrity of Creation office of his congregation. He is an international leader in faith consistent and socially responsible investing and has participated in four Vatican sponsored events on responsible investing and corporate social responsibility. He serves as Chair of the Board of Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), www.ICCR.org . Séamus actively engages corporations in the financial and extractives sectors, as well as multinationals on labor and supply chain issues. Seamus has given numerous presentations in different venues on faith consistent investing and corporate social responsibility. He has been interviewed for print and radio shows and has appeared on a number of TV shows, including Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, CBS, PBS, Al Jazeera America, RTE and on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He blogs occasionally for the Huffingtonpost.com

Fr Séamus Finn link to sequence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIryeykIraI

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