RC 48 on “Administrative Culture” has a new Chair, Dr Rosamund Thomas, who is the Director of the Centre for Business and Public Sector Ethics in Cambridge, UK.  Existing and new members wishing to join RC 48 are invited to contact Dr Thomas as soon as possible at info@ethicscentre.org, giving their full details, contact information, and a photograph for the new RC 48 website.

The panel themes for this research group for the Madrid Conference 2012 are: 
1. “Ethics in Public Administration, including corruption /anti-corruption,” and 
2. “Current and Future Issues in Public Administration as they affect administrative culture”.

If Business Ethics is your interest as well as anti-corruption, please see Rosamund`s new edited book “Business Ethics” (ISBN 978-1-871891-04-1), further details of which can be obtained from her above email address or from www.ethicscentre.org

Please welcome also, other members of the committee.  A Vice-Chair is Prof. Leonid Smorgunov, of the Faculty of Political Science, St Petersburg State University, Russia.  The other Vice-Chair and webmaster is Prof. Jeremy Lewis of Huntingdon College, USA.  The secretary is  Prof. Ashok Ranjan Basu, IAS (Retd), India.  For details, see the contacts page.