The Starling Compendium Contributors

Wim Mijs was appointed Chief Executive of the European Banking Federation in September 2014. Between 2007 and 2014 Wim served as CEO of the Dutch banking association NVB.

Wayne Byres is the Former Chair of the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA).

Dr. Terri Patterson is a psychologist who previously served as Chief of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, among a number of other roles during her 20-year career as an Executive and Special Agent at the agency.

Simone di Castri is the Co-Founder and Co-Head of the Cambridge SupTech Lab. He is a public policy specialist and frontier digital economy and financial market leader with 15 years of high-impact engagement in the fields of banking, payments, telecoms, and technology.

Shee Tse Koon is Group Executive and Group Head of Consumer Banking Group and Wealth Management for DBS. Prior to this he was Country Head for DBS Singapore.

Sharon Donnery was first appointed Deputy Governor in March 2016 and has been an ex-officio member of the Central’s Bank Commission since that date. She has held the Deputy Governor, Financial Regulation role at the Central Bank of Ireland since 1 July 2022 and is a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the General Board of the European Systemic Risk Board.

Robert Stout spent nearly three decades as a lawyer and executive with bp, most recently as the VP and Head of US policy and regulatory affairs in bp’s Washington office from 2014-20.

Richard Wrangham is the Ruth B. Moore Research Professor of Biological Anthropology (retired) at Harvard University and founded the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in 1987.

Peter Turchin is Project Leader at the Complexity Science Hub — Vienna, Research Associate at University of Oxford, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Connecticut.

Peter Gleason is president and CEO of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the most trusted association for corporate directors who want to expand their knowledge, grow their network, and maximize their potential. For nearly 50 years, NACD has been the leading voice of the director, setting the standard for governance education, best practices, and thought leadership. Our leadership continues to raise standards of excellence and advance board effectiveness at thousands of member companies.

Paul Seabright is a Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the Toulouse School of Economics. He is the author of several books, most recently The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People.

Nicolai Tangen is the Chief Executive Officer of Norges Bank Investment Management, Norway’s $1.5 trillion sovereign wealth fund.

Neil Esho is Secretary General of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Prior to this, he served as the Deputy Secretary General, having joined the Basel Committee Secretariat in April 2006.

Michelle W. Bowman has been a member of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System since she was appointed in November 2018, and her term ends in January 2034. Prior to this, she served as the state bank commissioner of Kansas.

Michael Muthukrishna is an Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics.

Maria Ana Barata is a senior policy advisor to the European Banking Federation for Prudential Policy & Supervision

Margaret E. Tahyar is Head of the Financial Institutions practice and a member of the Fintech team at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

Langley Sharp MBE is the former head of the Centre for Army Leadership, responsible for championing leadership excellence across the British Army.

Kevin N. Lala is Professor of Behavioural and Evolutionary Biology at the University of St Andrews, where he is a member of the Centre for Biological Diversity, the Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, the Institute for Behavioural and Neural Sciences, and the Scottish Primate Research Group.

Sir Keith Skeoch is the former CEO of Standard Life Aberdeen (now-abrdn), and previously served as the Chair of the UK Financial Reporting Council from 2020 to 2021. He is now the Non-Executive Chairman of insurer QBE’s European Operations.

Henry Farrell is the SNF Agora Professor of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and the 2019 recipient of the Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Politics and Technology.

Greg Baer is the President and Chief Executive Officer at the Bank Policy Institute. Previously, he served as President of The Clearing House Association and Executive Vice President and General Counsel of The Clearing House Payments Company, the largest private sector payments operator in the United States.

Emily Erikson is the Joseph C. Fox Academic Director of the Fox International Fellowship and a Professor of Sociology and the School of Management (by courtesy). She has authored several books, most recently Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic.

Elizabeth McCaul is a Member of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank (ECB). She joined the NY State Banking Department as First Deputy in 1995 and served as NY Superintendent of Banks from 1997-2003.