The Starling Compendium Contributors

Tim Adams is the President and CEO of the Institute of International Finance (IIF). The IIF is the global association of the financial industry.

Mrs Ong-Ang Ai Boon is the Director of The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS).  She was appointed in 1982 and has since led the ABS with her extensive regulatory and operational experience in the banking industry.

Clare Bolingford is the Executive Director, Regulatory Delivery for the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority (FMA). Clare is responsible for directing, planning and delivery of the FMA’s core regulatory functions across licensing, engagement and supervision of regulated individuals and firms.

Brian Brooks is the Former Acting US Comptroller of the Currency from 2020 to 2021. He is currently the CEO of Bitfury, a bitcoin mining company based in Amsterdam.

John Seely Brown “JSB” was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation until April 2002, and director of the renowned Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) until June 2000.

Damon Centola is the Elihu Katz Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Network Dynamics Group. He is also a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Author of two books, most recently Change: How to Make Big Things Happen, his research centers on social networks and behavior change.

As Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council (2017-2018), Gary Cohn managed the US economic policy agenda, stimulating economic expansion, job creation, and wage increases through historic tax and regulatory reform. Prior to that he was the President and Chief Operating Officer at Goldman Sachs where he worked for more than 25 years.

Karen S. Cook is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology; Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS); and Vice-Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Stanford. She conducts research on social interaction, social networks, social exchange, and trust. She has edited or co-authored numerous books and articles on the subject of trust in the organization.

Mark Cooke joined HSBC in 2014 as Group Head of Operational Risk. In that role, Mark led a team of risk officers across the firm’s global footprint, overseeing non-financial risks such as compliance breaches and staff misconduct, before taking a sabbatical in 2020. Earlier, Mark held senior leadership roles at Barclays and UBS in risk, finance and operations. Today he is Chairman of ORX, the financial services industry association for Operational Risk Management.

Alison Cottrell is the former CEO of the Financial Services Culture Board (FSCB). The FSCB, which ended operations in 2023, worked to raise standards of organisational behaviour, competence and culture for all financial institutions in the UK.

Curry was nominated by President Obama to serve as head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). As Comptroller of the Currency (2012-17), Curry led the US federal agency that charters, regulates, and supervises national banks and federal savings banks.

Jonathan Davidson is a former Executive Director of Supervision and Authorisations for the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). He is currently a Senior Advisor to the FCA on Sustainability and Climate Change.

Professor Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, a chair established to support study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises and the betterment of society. She studies leadership, psychological safety, and organizational learning.

John Flint is the former Group CEO of HSBC. As of 2021, Mr. Flint was appointed to be the CEO of the UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB).

James Freis is a former Director of FinCEN and was the longest serving Director of that agency. He subsequently was the CCO at the Deutsche Börse Group and interim CEO at Wirecard following the exposure of fraud at that firm.

Katherine Gibson served as a member of the Transitional Management Committee of the South Africa Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) at the time of her appointment as Deputy Commissioner. In this role she fulfilled a number of key responsibilities and was also appointed as Acting Commissioner.

Andrew G. Haldane, FAcSS FRS is a British economist who worked at the Bank of England between 1989 and 2021 as the chief economist and executive director of monetary analysis and statistics.

Michael Held is the general counsel and EVP of the Legal Group at the New York Federal Reserve Board (NY Fed). He is also a member of the Bank's Executive Committee. In addition, he serves as deputy general counsel of the Federal Open Market Committee.

Mr. Ketchum is the former Chairman of Board of Governors and Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (2009 - 2016).

Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.

Kathy Matsui is an adjunct professor of management at Kyoto University Graduate School of Management. She is also a General Partner of MPower Partners, Japan's first ESG-focused global venture capital fund.

Matonobu Matsuo is the Secretary-General of the Japan Securities & Exchange Surveillance Commission. The SESC falls under the FSA and is responsible for “ensuring fair transactions in both securities and financial futures markets.”

Ann Pendleton-Jullian is a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She is a writer, architect and educator whose work explores the interchange between culture, environment, and technology.

Mirea Raaijmakers is the former Global Head of Behavioral Risk for ING. Mirea joined ING in 2017 and was appointed to her current role in August 2018. Prior to ING she worked for the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) where she developed and executed the supervision on Behaviour & Culture.