Dr Philip Stiles is an associate professor at the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and Director of the Centre for International Human Resource Management. He previously worked at London Business School.
Philip has a long-standing research interest in leadership and has worked extensively with a number of public sector, private sector and third sector organisations about their approaches to leadership, and governance.
He has led large scale research projects and research consortia, for example, he developed a research group involving 30 major organisations worldwide and he is working currently with a number of firms exploring how they transform their workplace. He works with boards of directors looking at issues of transformation and decision making. His latest book is “Board Dynamics” published by Cambridge University in 2021.
Robert Stokes is a freelance editor and writer of more than 30 years’ standing in business, finance, economics and technology journalism. He has written extensively for leading UK and international quality newspapers, B2B titles in print and online, and for the journals of professional associations.
Lynn is a well known financial and business journalist with a career that spans Reuters and a variety of publications including Financial World, Financial Director, Financial News and Professional Investor. She is a regular contributor to FTSE Global Markets, Financial News, Investments and Pensions Europe, IP Real Estate, derivsource, Pensions Age, European Pensions,Portfolio Institutional, AsiaETrader and Risk Professional Management.
Ruth Sullivan is an associate editor to Board Agenda. Ruth worked for the Financial Times for many years and is an accomplished and award winning editor who worked writes on corporate governance, leadership and management issues.
Peter Swabey is policy & research director at ICSA. He is responsible for developing the profile of the Institute to members, regulators, policymakers, employers and other stakeholders by delivering thought leadership and lobbying campaigns aligned to ICSA strategy and promoting strong governance as the vital ingredient for success in organisations. Peter has 30 years’ experience of the share registration industry, gained at Lloyds TSB Registrars and subsequently Equiniti and Equiniti David Venus, amongst others.
Carsten Tams is founder and CEO of Emagence, LLC, a New York consultancy. He holds appointments at research and educational institutions in the field of organisational ethics. Carsten serves on the board of advisors at the Hoffman Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University, as senior advisor at the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI), and as fellow at the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program.
In his role at ECI, Carsten has trained executives from around the world on the essentials of high-performing ethics & compliance (E&C) programs, as instructor for ECI's Leadership Professional in Ethics & Compliance certification program.
Carsten has 15 years of experience in advising world-class organisations (UNESCO, Green Climate Fund, Alexion, Harvard, General Electric, Volkswagen, Bertelsmann) on high-quality E&C programs. In his advisory work, Carsten combines insights from interdisciplinary human sciences to design E&C programs aimed at producing superior employee engagement and impact.
Paolo Tasca is a FinTech economist specialising in peer-to-peer financial systems. An adviser for different international organisations, including the EU Parliament on blockchain technologies, Paolo recently joined University College London as executive director of the Centre for Blockchain Technologies (UCL CBT). Prior to that, he was the P2P lead economist at Deutsche Bundesbank working on digital currencies and P2P lending. Paolo is co-author of “The FINTECH Book” and co-editor of the book “Banking Beyond Banks and Money”. He holds an MA in Politics and Economics from the University of Padua and an MSc in Economics and Finance from Ca’ Foscari, Venice. Paolo completed his PhD studies in business between Ca’ Foscari Venice and ETH, Zürich.
Catherine Taylor is a partner in CMS’s employment team. Catherine works on employment issues, both contentious and non-contentious and has specific expertise in complex multi-jurisdictional and High Court litigation (especially bonus and employee competition disputes), board level disputes and data protection. Catherine also guides employers through complex investigations, setting the strategy and working with other teams to ensure the best possible client outcome. Her practice is employer-focused, with a particular interest in the financial services and TMC sectors.
Alison Taylor joined New York University Stern School of business as a clinical associate professor in January 2023. Her research focuses on the organisational dimension of corporate responsibility and business ethics. She has expertise in strategy, sustainability, political and social risk, culture and behaviour, human rights, ethics and compliance, stakeholder engagement, anti-corruption and professional responsibility. She is also the executive director of Ethical Systems, a research collaboration focused on ethical organisational culture. Alison is currently writing a book on the new landscape for business ethics, for Harvard Business Review Press.
Brian Tomlinson is director of research of the CEO Investor Forum at Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP). Brian is an expert in fiduciary duty, sustainable business and investment practice. He has a decade of experience as a corporate finance attorney specialising in leverage finance and financial restructuring and worked in the business turnaround group of an investment bank. Brian also served as the managing director of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism.
Lily Tomson is head of networks at the responsible investment charity ShareAction. The team spans ShareAction’s work with individuals, civil society organisations, charities and universities, and helps build up communities who want to take ambitious action on advocacy, policy and engagement across capital markets. Lily is also a non-executive director at the money and banking advocacy and research group Positive Money.
