In one of the worst weeks for economic and corporate news, consciences were reawakened.

Banker John Studzinski from Blackstone wore his Human Rights Watch vice-chair hat at the Natural History Museum, where there was a record turnout for the annual dinner hosted by HRW chief Ken Roth. The centrepiece was a presentation of its work in Georgia in the aftermath of recent conflict, watched by Bianca Jagger , as chairman of World Future Council, and a crowd including Granta owner and publisher Sigrid Rausing, of the Swedish Tetra Pak clan, and theatre producer husband Eric Abraham, as well as Skype founder and now Joost owner Niklas Zennstrom and wife Catherine .