Editors & Contributors

Josep Garcia-Blandon

Dr. Josep García-Blandón is a professor at the IQS School of Management, University Ramon Lull in Barcelona. His research subjects include financial management and financial markets, corporate governance and sustainability. His most recent studies include work on gender in audit services, sustainable Human Resources management, money laundering and audit committees.

Elizabeth Gardiner

Elizabeth Gardiner is chief executive of Protect, the UK’s whistleblowing charity. Prior to becoming an employment solicitor, she had many years of experience in policy and Parliamentary roles. She joined the charity as legal officer in 2018 and was appointed as chief executive in March 2020. She has experience providing advice to whistleblowers on the charity’s free legal advice line and training employers in best practice whistleblowing arrangements.

Alice Garton

Alice Garton is a lawyer (Australian-qualified) at ClientEarth and leader of the company and financial project. Prior to joining ClientEarth, she worked as a litigation lawyer at Olswang (in London) and Clayton Utz (in Australia), and as a company lawyer at Brookfield Multiplex, where she managed the complex Wembley Stadium dispute. In parallel to her litigation practice, Alice developed and implemented corporate social responsibility programmes at Clayton Utz and Brookfield. At Brookfield she also advised the board of directors on the UK and EU climate change regulatory regimes, including identifying strategic business opportunities in the green economy. Alice has researched and written about various issues in international environmental law through her work at Chatham House in 2006 and in her other roles.

Jeff Gaspersz

Dr Jeff Gaspersz is professor of innovation at Nyenrode Business University. He is part of Nyenrode's Faculty Research Center for Strategy, Organization & Leadership, contributing insights and ideas to support leaders and policy makers in developing and exploiting the power of innovation. After his degree in socio-economic policy, Jeff worked in this field of expertise as a lecturer at Erasmus University and at Nyenrode. His interest is now in leadership in organisations, and he has spent time at KPMG learning about consultancy. Jeff writes and speaks passionately about innovation, and is developing research into how artificial intelligence can help stimulate creativity and new ideas.

David Gibbs

David Gibbs graduated with an undergraduate degree in Business Law, and a Master's degree in Commercial Law. In 2014 he completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia on 'Non-Executive Self-Interest: Legal and Governance Controls'. He is now a lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire's Law School, teaching company and commercial law. In 2015 he was awarded the British Academy's Quantitative Skills Award and he will be working with the Eastern Academic Research Consortium for a year on a research project looking at private enforcement of directors' duties.

Steve Giles

Steve Giles is a chartered accountant and an independent consultant with more than 20 years’ experience of advising directors on business issues concerning governance, risk and compliance. He is also the author of "The Business Ethics Twin Track: Combining Controls and Culture to Minimise Reputational Risk" and "Managing Fraud Risk: A Practical Guide for Directors and Managers".

Seamus Gillen

Seamus Gillen has worked as a chartered secretary, a company secretary and company director, and as policy director of ICSA, The Chartered Governance Institute. For the past 15 years, he has been advising clients around the UK and internationally on governance, working with boards, directors and board secretaries the world over, focusing on board and director effectiveness. He is the founder of ValueAlpha, a resource network for those working in the field of corporate governance, and has worked on the UK Financial Reporting Council's Guidance on Board Effectiveness.

Brian GM Main

Brian G. M. Main, FRSE, Academic FCIPD is professor of business economics in the University of Edinburgh Business School. His research has centred on top executive pay and corporate governance, including work on tournament theory and social influence within the boardroom. He has been published widely, including in the American Economic Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, California Management Review, The Economic Journal, and the Journal of Management Studies.

Suren Gomtsian

Suren Gomtsian is associate professor in business law at the University of Leeds School of Law. His research focuses on corporate law and corporate governance and has been published in leading academic journals, covered in the Financial Times, and cited by the United States Court of Appeals and the Delaware Court of Chancery.

Angelica Gonzalez

Dr Angelica Gonzalez is a senior lecturer in finance at the University of Edinburgh Business School.

Fin Goulding

Fin Goulding was formerly the CIO of Aviva International and, before that, CTO at Paddy Power and Lastminute.com. He has been a CIO at Visa, HSBC, and Travelocity. He is a fellow of the British Computer Society.

Mark Goyder

Mark Goyder is founder of Tomorrow’s Company and senior adviser to the Board Intelligence Think Tank. He is the author, with Ong Boon Hwee, of Entrusted, Stewardship for Responsible Wealth Creation, published by World Scientific in 2020.