Business veteran Norman Murray is to spearhead the new ethics push by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
Mr Murray, a past president of ICAS who qualified as an accountant in 1976, is the current chairman of drinks producer Edrington Group and fills the same role on the board of Scottish Ballet.
He has also been chairman of oil businesses Petrofac and Cairn Energy as well as sitting on the boards of companies such as Robert Wiseman Dairies, Greene King and Bristow Helicopter Group.
Prior to taking up a portfolio of non-executive roles, he co-founded Morgan Grenfell Private Equity with his former flatmate Lord Smith of Kelvin.
Now Mr Murray is to chair the ICAS Ethics Board which looks to build on The Power of One concept the organisation launched at its annual conference last month.
That aims to instil in individuals the need to act ethically at all times and also embed that kind of behaviour throughout organisations they work in.
Mr Murray said: "An important aspect of The Power of One is the need for individuals to have the confidence and the moral courage to deal with ethical issues. Alongside this, companies must encourage a culture of doing the right thing when dealing with those issues.
"We are encouraging our membership, many of whom hold key positions in global businesses, to play a leading role in influencing business culture and ensuring the right climate exists for principled, ethical decision making."
Anton Colella, ICAS chief executive, said: "Norman Murray is one of our most respected business professionals and we are very fortunate to have him join us in this great initiative.”
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here