Professor Randall S Peterson is academic director of the Leadership Institute at London Business School. His current research activities include investigating how CEO personality affects top management team interaction; board dynamics; leading diverse teams; conflict management in teams; and the effects of member personality on group interaction and performance.
As professor of organisational behaviour at London Business School, he teaches on the EMBA, MBA, MFA, and executive education on leading teams and organisations, high performance teams, leadership assessment, and interpersonal skill development. He has been invited to teach and consult across the world, for companies such as ADNOC, Alcan, AREVA, Barclays, Chevron/Texaco, Deutsche Bank, Emirates Bank, E.ON, GIB, IBM, Lufthansa, Nestlé, Price Waterhouse Coopers, and Roche.
Jason leads ACCA’s policy work on the closely related fields of tax and business law, considering both the direct impacts of developments in each field and the wider implications for business and society as a whole.
His policy and research interests cover all aspects of business form and their regulation, how they interact with tax systems and the wider economic and social environment, including the influence of technological change on both the regulatory and economic environment for entrepreneurs and criminals.
He is the face of ACCA at a number of UK government and EU Commission expert groups on tax and business law matters. He also represents ACCA on tax, business law and economic crime issues at Accountancy Europe, the European Association of Craft, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEUnited) and the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC).
Seth Popick, a member of the law firm Cozen O’Connor, focuses his practice on corporate finance and governance matters for emerging and seasoned companies. His experience includes representation of companies in public offerings, reporting matters with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and acquisitions and dispositions. He also works with companies on employee compensation and corporate governance matters.
Emma Portier Davis is European correspondent for Board Agenda. Emma has more than ten years' experience reporting from Brussels on both EU regulatory developments and Belgium for a wide range of media. She is the former bureau chief of AFX News where she covered EU competition decisions and the Belgian economy, and spent two years as a correspondent for Reuters.
Corinne Post is associate professor of management at Lehigh University. Post’s research interests centre on gender and racial differences in individual work experiences and career trajectories, as well as on the effects of diversity on innovation and performance, including boards of directors. Prior to academia, Post worked for Accenture, first as an IT analyst and then as a human resources specialist.
Tim Powlson is a principal consultant at Entec Si, specialising in business, technology and digital transformation. With over 20 years of experience in successfully delivering change for good, Tim's person-first philosophy often means smoothing the path where people and technology converge.
Understanding how processes produce and use data to manage and measure delivery is a specific interest and his skills have helped to support NHS trusts through the Covid-19 crisis response and into recovery planning.
Shameen Prashantham is a professor of international business and strategy, and associate dean (MBA) at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). His research focuses on partnering between multinationals corporations and startups, and latterly on collaboration for innovation that help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He is the author of Gorillas can Dance: Lessons from Microsoft on Partnering with Startups (Wiley).
Michael joined Newcastle University Business School in 2012 as a teaching assistant. He was subsequently awarded a PhD in the area of corporate governance under the supervision of Professor David Campbell. He is presently working on a number of exciting projects at the newly formed Centre for Research on Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy and Wealth (REWP).
Irena Prijović is chair of the European Confederation of Directors' Associations (ecoDa), a not-for-profit association which represents approximately 55,000 board directors from across the EU. She is also secretary general of the Slovenian Directors' Association. Irena's career is professionally dedicated to corporate governance (CG) consultancy, research, development of professional standards, as well as to educational and directors’ certification activities. She is a co-author of different CG research, studies, codes, and best practice principles. She is also a regular lecturer at seminars and conferences. In 2007, Irena was awarded for her contribution to CG development in Slovenia.
David Prosser is an associate editor to Board Agenda and has been a financial and business journalist for almost 30 years. He started his career at the Financial Times group, becoming Personal Finance Editor of its flagship publication Investors Chronicle. He went on to work for Guardian Newspapers, Express Newspapers, where he was Personal Finance Editor of the Daily and Sunday Express, and The Independent, where he was Personal Finance Editor and, latterly, Business Editor. From 2012, David has been consultant editor and adviser, dividing his time between traditional journalism, writing for a variety of websites, magazines, national newspapers, and thought leadership. His journalism is focused on finance, investment, economics and entrepreneurship. Recent projects, including those related to his association with Board Agenda have considered business transformation, innovation, the ESG challenge and stakeholder engagement.
Trevor Pryer is the founder & executive editor of Board Agenda. He has held senior publishing roles in various national and international media groups and led award winning business publications & digital media in a host of industry sectors including business management, healthcare, design & energy. Trevor is responsible for editorial content, client and partner relationships, the development of the company's value proposition, audience engagement, management of our team and the overall success of the company
