Prior to joining INSEAD, Thomas was on the faculty of Erasmus University Rotterdam and received his PhD at Maastricht University.
He teaches managerial accounting in INSEAD’s core MBA programme, with an emphasis on managerial decision-making, performance measurement, and incentive provision and distortion. His research interests include corporate governance, shareholder activism, and risk management.
Denis Kilroy is the Managing Director of The KBA Consulting Group – an Australian firm that he established in 1994 after some ten years with LEK and Marakon Associates.
He played a key role in establishing LEK’s Australasian practice and was one of the first non-Americans to be elected partner with Marakon.
He established KBA to focus on a more conscious and more socially responsible approach to business. This involved helping client companies to develop the ability to create real value for customers and significant wealth for shareholders, while at the same time seeking to enhance community and environmental wellbeing. Throughout the mid-to-late 1990s, he was often told that the ideas that he was working with were well ahead of their time.
Whether that was true or not in the past, the emergence of streams of thought like Conscious Capitalism in the very different business environment that emerged in the wake of the GFC, led him to the view that the time was now right to publish. Customer Value, Shareholder Wealth, Community Wellbeing was written by Denis and his co-author Marvin Schneider over an extended period. It represents the culmination of more than 20 years work.
Michael Kind is a campaign manager at ShareAction, where he works to educate and mobilise individual people in support for a financial system that serves people and planet.
Dr Ewan Kirk is a technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. He has been involved in a number of ventures to commercialise, apply, and support science, technology, and mathematics research. He is a NED at BAE Systems, chair of DeepTech Labs, executive chair at Cardeo and founder and director of the Turner Kirk Trust. He chairs the management committee of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Kirk is best known for founding Cantab Capital Partners, a science-driven quantitative investment management firm, that uses data analysis to research and implement systematic investment strategies. Between 2007 and 2016, Cantab was consistently ranked as one of the top-performing quant funds. In 2016, it was acquired by GAM Investments. Between 1992 and 2005, Kirk was a partner at Goldman Sachs. Kirk holds a PhD in general relativity.
With his wife, Dr Patricia Turner, Kirk founded the Turner-Kirk Charitable Trust, which supports STEM, early childhood development, and biodiversity and conservation causes in the UK and developing world. In 2015, Kirk and Turner provided a £5m gift to the University of Cambridge to launch the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information.
Dr Collette Kirwan is a lecturer in accounting at the Quinn School of Business, UCD. She qualified as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers where she subsequently worked as a manager in audit services. Prior to taking up her academic post at University College Dublin, Collette was a lecturer in the School of Business at Waterford Institute of Technology. In 2011, Collette was awarded the Waterford Institute of Technology Teaching Excellence Award.
Harvey Knight is a partner at law firm Withers LLP where his practice is focused on the inter-relationships between the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA); FCA and PRA-regulated individuals and their FCA and PRA-regulated businesses; and the FCA, the PRA and the law.
Chris Knowles is chief digital officer at RSM UK. He has more than 20 years’ experience as an IT consultant, is a chartered management accountant, and sits on RSM's National Leadership Team.
Chris started out in IT consulting in 1997 and joined RSM in 2012 to build and lead the technology and management consulting practice. As chief digital officer, a role he took on in April 2020, Chris guides technology innovation and adoption for RSM and its clients.
Dr Reeves Knyght chairs the board of directors at Minerva Lending Plc. With a history of working in the venture capital industry, his skills lie in negotiation, investor relations, investment advisory, trading, and structured finance. Reeves’ doctorate was focused on corporate governance and finance.
Dr David Ko is the co-founder of Rethinking Choices, with Richard Busellato. They are experienced hedge fund managers with three decades of investment experience working with pensions and savings institutions. They left the industry to focus now on the ways in which we are all pushing the world beyond its limits, and point out that 'climate change will bankrupt us before it drowns us'. Our economy is not designed for a world with finite limits; an economic model for this needs to be centred on ethics and purpose.
Mandy Kovacs is a journalist writing for news agency International News Services. She writes analytical pieces on a wide variety of industrial and business sectors. She has reported on the business, fraud and money-laundering industries, as well as the food, technology, transportation, and personal-care sectors, with a particular focus on Canada.
Nirmalya Kumar is a distinguished fellow at the INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute, and a visiting professor of marketing at London Business School. Most recently, he became a member of the Group Executive Council of Tata Sons and strategy thought leader at the group. Nirmalya has written six books, five of which are published by Harvard Business Press: "Marketing as Strategy" (2004), "Private Label Strategy" (2007), "Value Merchants" (2007), "India’s Global Powerhouses" (2009), and "India Inside" (2012). Nirmalya is an outlier among marketing professors, having accomplished the rare feat of publishing six articles each in both the Journal of Marketing Research and the Harvard Business Review. His publications have attracted more than 8,000 citations on Google Scholar.
Jonathan Labrey is chief strategy officer at the IIRC, leading its global policy work, which aims to create the conditions for integrated reporting to flourish. Since joining the IIRC in March 2012, Jonathan has travelled widely and has developed a deep insight into the major trends and policy developments in corporate reporting across the world.
Jonathan has a background in government relations, policy and regulation, having headed up the public affairs and policy team at the ICAEW from 2004–10 and at the RIBA from 2000–2004.
