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Alex Gillespie
Professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science

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.


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Alexandra Chesterfield
Head of Behavioural Risk, Natwest Group

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.


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David Kiron
Editorial Director, MIT Sloan Management Review

David Kiron is the editorial director of MIT Sloan Management Review. 


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John Crawford
Professor of Law at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.

John Crawford is a Professor of Law at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.


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Starling Insights
Starling Insights Editorial Board

Starling's team of editors provide review and analysis of current trends and developments in the industry.


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Stephen Scott
Founder & CEO of Starling Trust Sciences

Stephen spent a 25-year career in risk management and corporate intelligence, providing clients with insights into the causes of organizational dysfunction or under-performance.


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Susan Axelrod
Broker-Dealer Compliance Oversight Executive, Bank of America

Susan F. Axelrod is the Broker-Dealer Compliance Oversight Executive for Bank of America. In this role, she has responsibility to oversee activities across all the firm’s broker/dealers to identify opportunities for driving consistency, connectivity and enhanced risk monitoring across the regions and entities. Prior to that she served as Chief Supervisory Officer (CSO) for Merrill Wealth Management where she oversaw supervisory risk culture, driving shared accountability for end-to-end supervision at all levels of leadership.


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Tom Reader
Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics

Dr Tom Reader is an Associate Professor of Organisational Psychology at the London School of Economics. He directs the Masters of Science in Organisational and Social Psychology and he leads a Masters in Science and Executive course on Organisational Culture. Tom is also a chartered psychologist (MA and PhD, University of Aberdeen; Leverhulme Fellowship).


Visit the Starling 2023 Bookshelf

Where you can find the books that have inspired us

Find a list of the books that sit on our bookshelf.  We hope that some of our readers will be inspired to give one or tow of these terrific books a glance.