The Starling Compendium Contributors

Alex 'Sandy' Pentland is a Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) Fellow at Stanford University and the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts & Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Walter Massey is a physicist and the former Chair of Bank of America, having led the bank through the 2008 financial crisis. He is the Chair of the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization, and is President Emeritus of Morehouse College and of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, former Director of the National Science Foundation, and former Director of Argonne National Laboratory.

Adam D. Fine conducts research at the intersection of psychology, law, public policy, and criminology.

Admiral Charles “Chas” Richard served as the 11th commander of United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) between 2019 and 2022.

Admiral Michael Rogers served simultaneously as Commander of U.S. Cyber Command and Director of the National Security Agency from 2014 to 2018.

Adrienne A. Harris joined the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) in September 2021 and was confirmed as Superintendent on January 25, 2022.

Albert-László Barabási is the Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science and University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University.

Alex Edmans is a Professor of Finance at London Business School. He is the author of Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit.

Alex Gillespie is a Professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Editor of Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. He has published six books and over a hundred papers.

Alexandra Chesterfield is the Head of Behavioural Risk for the NatWest Group where she leads a team of behavioural scientists to help get better outcomes for employees and customers.

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.

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.

Andrea Enria was Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) from 2019 to 2024. Before that he was the first Chairperson of the European Banking Authority from March 2011.

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.

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.

Anna Bligh has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Banking Association since 2017. While working to strengthen bank culture and rebuild trust following the Hayne Royal Commission, Anna also drove the industry’s response to COVID-19.

Anne Walsh is Chief Investment Officer for Guggenheim Partners Investment Management and a Managing Partner of Guggenheim Partners.

Antoine Ferrere is Global Head of Behavioral and Data Science at Novartis.

Ari Redbord is the Head of Legal & Government Affairs for TRM Labs and is the past-Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the US Department of the Treasury.

The Association of Banks in Singapore formed the Culture & Conduct Steering Group (CCSG) in 2019 to promote sound culture and to raise conduct standards among banks in Singapore.

Axel Weber is the past-Chair of UBS and the past-President of the German Bundesbank and a member of the European Central Bank Governing Council from 2004 to 2011. He is a member of the Group of 30.

Barbara G. Novick was a co-founder of BlackRock in 1988; Ms. Novick transitioned from Vice Chairman to Senior Advisor as of February 2021.

Benjamin Van Rooij is a Professor of Law and Society at the University of Amsterdam School of Law and the Director of the Center for Law and Behavior. He studies and teaches about the interaction between law and behavior. His current research focuses on individual differences in compliance, toxic corporate culture, and assumptions about behavioral change.

Elizabeth Levy Paluck is a professor in the department of psychology and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where she also serves as deputy director of the Center for Behavioral Science & Policy. She is known for her work on social norms and social change, for which she won the 2017 MacArthur "Genius Grant."

Bill Coen was Secretary General of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) from 2014 to 2019. He is currently the Chair of the IFRIS Advisory Council. He also serves on the Global Advisory Board of MUFG and the Board of Directors of China Construction Bank.