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world you may not be saving people from
burning buildings but, as Robinson says,
“companies have to create the worthwhile
effect in another way; emphasising the
beneficial impact of the products or
services that they offer, or the charities
they support.”
Theresa Humphries, a research scientist at
AstraZeneca, a pharmaceutical company,
works in medicinal chemistry at the earliest
stages of creating medicines for respiratory
and inflammatory diseases such as asthma.
After her chemistry degree she had the
option to go into petrochemicals or paint
industry, but chose pharmaceuticals. “It was a
conscious decision. I wanted to do something
(that would be) beneficial to society.”
The lucrative pharmaceutical industry often
receives negative press. Humphries is
unfazed. “A doctor can prescribe only the
medicines that (we) make,” she says. “But
we are a big company and we need to
make a profit to keep making new drugs.”
She feels that the training she
receives at AstraZeneca would be
hard to replicate elsewhere. “We get
a lot of development and go away to
conferences. In the public and charity
“In the corporate world you may not be
sectors, money is tighter.”
saving people from burning buildings but
Guy Hacking, an analyst at Climate
companies have to create the worthwhile
Change Capital (CCC), an investment
bank, also chose corporate life. “I wanted effect in another way; emphasising the
go into corporate finance. (My perception
beneficial impact of the products or
is) that the private sector moves more
quickly, is more dynamic and you get more services that they offer, or the charities
done.” While studying green economics at
they support”
A-level he came across the bank, which
works in low carbon markets. He now
works in areas such as project finance
and mergers and acquisitions – but for
companies dealing in alternative energy,
among others. He feels that the collateral
in the private sector enables it to stay at charity world, but didn’t think that I could by 2015,” she says. Her time in the private
the forefront. CCC invests $1.5 billion make a difference,” she says. sector allowed her to go into OI at a senior
(£0.7 billion) in clean technology. “What level and participate in a more meaningful
NGO can make that kind of investment?”
Then she became finance director
way. “My business experience gave me the
he says.
for Opportunity International (OI), a
skills I use now,” she says. “I don’t think I’d
microfinance charity that makes tiny loans
ever go back to the private sector, not for
Shabnam Zamurd trained as an to people in developing countries to help
all the money in the world.”
accountant and as a graduate worked them to set up their own businesses.
for Chantrey Vellacott auditing charity Zamurd uses the same skills, but in
accounts. She felt that the private the context of drought insurance in
A version of this article by Emily Ford first
sector was the place for her talents. sub-Saharan Africa. “Our aim is to give ten
appeared in The Times’ Career section.
“Accountancy was the only area that million of the world’s poorest people the www.timesonline.co.uk
interested me. I respected people in the chance to work their way out of poverty
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