Professor Quy Nguyen Huy is the Solvay chaired professor and a professor of strategic management at INSEAD since 1998. He is internationally known for pioneering research on the social psychological aspects of managing strategic change and strategy execution. His research has won multiple international awards. He has written more than 60 research works and is listed in "Who’s Who in the World" and "Who’s Who in Science and Engineering". He is also included in Harvard Business Review's “Breakthrough Ideas for Today's Business Agenda." Huy’s research has also been widely reported in the international business press including Financial News (UK), Financial Times (UK), Forbes (USA), The Sunday Telegraph (UK), Le Figaro (France), La Tribune (France), Business Digest (France), Observer (Denmark), Borsen (Denmark), The Globe and Mail (Canada), The Chicago Tribune (USA), Harvard Business Review (China), The Jakarta Post (Indonesia). He has advised or taught executives in organisations worldwide.
Ong Boon Hwee is the former CEO of Stewardship Asia Centre (SAC), a Singapore-based thought leadership centre that focuses on promoting stewardship and governance across Asia.
In his varied professional career, Ong has extensive working experience in the civil service as well as the commercial sector.
Prior to establishing SAC, Ong was managing his own consultancy firm focusing on leadership development and organizational capacity-building.
He was also the COO of Singapore Power.
Ong has served on the boards of companies of diverse sectors including infrastructure, technology, security, telecoms, learning institutes and sovereign wealth fund. He also served as board director and advisor to non-profit organisations including research agencies, foundations, universities and youth institutions.
Ong is the co-author of two books, “Entrusted: Stewardship for responsible wealth creation” and “Inspiring Stewardship”.
Herminia Ibarra is the Charles Handy professor of organisational behaviour at London Business School. Prior to joining LBS, she served on the INSEAD (2002-2017) and Harvard Business School (1989-2002) faculties.
An authority on leadership, Thinkers 50 ranks Ibarra among the top management thinkers in the world. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network; a judge for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award; one of Apolitical’s 100 most influential people in gender policy; a Fellow of the British Academy; and the 2018 recipient of the Academy of Management’s Scholar-Practitioner Award for her research’s contribution to management practice. Ibarra also serves on the governing body of the London Business School.
Ioannis Ioannou is associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at London Business School and a leading authority on sustainability leadership and corporate responsibility. Through his award-winning academic work, advisory roles, teaching, and engagement with executives, he focuses on understanding whether, how, and the extent to which, companies and capital markets can lead on the path toward a sustainable future. More specifically, he is regarded as a preeminent authority on how companies strategically integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into their processes and structures and how the investment community perceives, evaluates and reacts to such corporate attempts to integrate ESG.
Among his numerous advisory roles, Ioannis is the co-chair of the sustainability advisory panel of Merck KGaA, a member of the ESG advisory board of the DWS Group, a member of the World Economic Forum Expert Network specialising in sustainable development, and a member of the advisory board of AXS Investments Institute for Sustainable Investing. He also runs a six-week online course on sustainability leadership and corporate responsibility (www.london.edu/SLCR) for senior leaders and board members from around the world.
Ruth Ireland is a partner within BDO's Risk & Advisory Services team, providing a range of services to clients including internal audit, corporate governance advice, risk management facilitation and business process consultancy.
Henry Irving is head of the ICAEW Audit and Assurance Faculty and member of FEE’s Auditing and Assurance Policy Group. He leads the Audit Quality Forum, which enables all those with an interest in the reliability of audited financial statements to discuss challenges to that concept and test public policy initiatives to promote it. He directs ICAEW’s re:Assurance, AuditInsights and AuditFutures programmes. Henry previously trained and worked in the Big Four, was the finance director of a London Market Group insurance company, led the insurance internal audit team at Norwich Union and was head of audit at the Civil Aviation Authority.
Patricia Harned is chief executive officer of the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI) in Arlington. The mission of the ECI is to empower organisations to build and sustain high-quality ethics and compliance programmes. The ECI is an alliance of three non-profit organisations: the Ethics Research Center (ERC), the Ethics & Compliance Association (ECA) and the Ethics & Compliance Certification Institute (ECCI). Dr. Harned chaired the ECI’s Blue Ribbon Panel on High-Quality Ethics & Compliance Programs, which established a new industry standard for effective ethics and compliance efforts in organisations. She has served as a consultant to many leading organisations, among them Penn State University, Daimler AG, and the New York Stock Exchange. Dr. Harned has testified before Congress and the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and she has provided briefings to U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, the OSHA Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee, and the Federal Bar Council on strategies to increase effective reporting of suspected organisational misconduct.
Dr Abdul Jabbar is the director of learning development and the head of the digital transformation research cluster at Huddersfield Business School. Dr Jabbar spends a great deal of his time developing and working on blockchain projects and engaging with industry to identify unique use cases for blockchain implementation. Currently Dr Jabbar continues to further develop his virtual blockchain which is the basis of much of his research. He has a key interest in smart contracts and his background in software development informs his research-led teaching and enterprise.
Cathy James is the chief executive of Public Concern at Work, the whistleblowing charity that advises individuals and supports organisations with whistleblowing arrangements, and lobbies for legislative change.
