Editors & Contributors

Ben Watson

Ben Watson is Managing Director of Blue Goose, an internal communications agency, delivering strategic and creative employee engagement.

Helena Wayth

Helena Wayth is the founder and managing director of A Bird’s Eye View, a strategic business and sustainability consultancy. Helena combines extensive international brand, business, and sustainability experience with a passion for market based collaborative solutions that can tackle social inequality challenges. Helena sits on the board of international non-profit PATH, which develops and scales solutions to accelerate global health equity.

Clive Webb

Clive Webb is head of business management at ACCA, the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants. He is a qualified accountant with Big Four experience in audit, technology and consulting. Clive's research portfolio considers business and technology-related matters from the perspective of chief financial officer. His research interests include the application of digital technologies to the finance function, and how they impact on the people and processes they support. His recent reports have looked at the future of the finance functions, the importance of data and analytics, the digital skills of the accountancy and finance professional and, latterly, the role of the chief financial officer.

Simon Webley

Simon has been research director at the Institute of Business Ethics since 1998. He has published numerous studies on all aspects of business ethics, the most recent being: "Codes of Business Ethics: a guide to developing and implementing an effective code and examples of good practice" (2016), and "Towards Ethical Norms in International Business Transactions" (2014). Simon lectures and facilitates training on business ethics issues for organisations in many countries.

Karen West

Karen West is a senior lecturer in public policy at Aston University. Her substantive research focus is on health, social care and the policy and politics of ageing. She has also held visiting positions at the University of Umeå’s Ageing and Living Conditions Centre in Sweden. Karen has taught at undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing professional development levels, and has supervised a number of PhD theses to successful completion. She was previously director of the PhD programme in the School of Languages and Social Sciences at Aston and is currently director of undergraduate programmes in Sociology and Policy.

Peter Westaway

Peter Westaway is a senior manager in Deloitte's national cccounting and audit team, providing advice to audit teams and clients on the application of IFRS, UK GAAP, company law and other corporate reporting issues. He is an accounting specialist who has worked on a number of Deloitte’s surveys of listed companies’ reporting and on Deloitte’s published guidance on the application of IFRSs and UK GAAP, particularly the new leasing IFRS.

Malcolm Wheatley

Dr Malcolm Wheatley is a visiting fellow at Cranfield School of Management. He began his career in the production planning department of a large engineering firm, later spending several years working with management consultants on assignments around manufacturing management, Just in Time production, and supply chain and inventory management. Since 1991 he has been a writer and editor specialising in supply chain management, manufacturing, procurement, and IT issues, writing for a wide variety of publications on both sides of the Atlantic.

Melissa Wheeler

Dr Melissa Wheeler is a post-doctoral research fellow and research manager at the Centre for Ethical Leadership and an honorary fellow of the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences and of the Melbourne Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. She has a PhD in moral and social psychology from the University of Melbourne. Her research covers three main areas: unconscious bias, gender equality, and how people communicate their moral beliefs.

Nicholas Whetherly

Nicholas Whetherly is founder and managing director of corporate intelligence and investigations firm Pelican Worldwide.

Andrew White

Dr Andrew White is senior fellow in management practice at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and a CEO executive coach.

Tom Whittaker

Tom is an associate in Burges Salmon’s dispute resolution team, with a keen interest in litigation technology, data analytics and discovery. Tom has considerable experience of large scale e-disclosure exercises, in both litigation and regulatory investigation contexts.  

Neill Wilkins

Neill specialises in the human rights challenges faced by migrant workers and the companies who recruit and employ them. He has undertaken a number of initiatives with the apparel, construction and hospitality sectors and the international employment industry to promote responsible recruitment. Neill also helped oversee the development of the Dhaka Principles for Migration with Dignity, a key framework for responsible business practice relating to migrant workers. Neill is responsible for the strategy and day to day management of the IHRB migrant workers programme along with matters relating to forced labour, trafficking and other abuses of workers rights.