The Starling Compendium Contributors

Starling is honored to feature contributions from some of the leading voices in regulation and supervision, industry, the legal profession, scholars, and other thought leaders.  

› Topic: "Behavioral Science"

Zachary Coseglia

Co-Founder of the R&G Insights Lab

Zachary Coseglia is the Co-Founder of R&G Insights Lab, the legal consulting arm of Ropes & Gray LLP


William Onuwa

EVP and Chief Audit Executive, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)

William Onuwa is EVP and Chief Audit Executive at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Prior to this role, he was the SVP and Chief Risk Officer for Wealth Management, RBC Georgia and the Insurance Group.


Wijnand Nuijts

Manager Supervision for Governance, Culture, and Organizational Behavior

Wijnand Nuijts is the Manager Supervision for Governance, Culture, and Organizational Behavior for the Dutch National Bank.


Wies Wagenaar

Global Head, Centre of Expertise for Behaviour, Ethics & Compliance Learning, ABN AMRO

Wies Wagenaar is a social psychologist and serves as the Global Head for the Centre of Expertise for Behaviour, Ethics & Compliance Learning for ABN AMRO. She started her career as a crisis management consultant.


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).


Tom Tyler

Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Yale Law School

Tom Tyler is the Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School as well as a Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory. Professor Tyler’s research explores the role of justice in shaping people’s relationships with groups, organizations, communities, and societies.


Thomas M. Noone

Counsel and Assistant Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Tom Noon is Counsel and Assistant Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.


Dr. Terri Patterson

Past-Chief, US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Behavioral Analysis Unit

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.


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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Simon Wills

Executive Director, ORX

Simon Wills is the Executive Director of ORX. ORX, the Operational Risk Exchange, is the largest operational risk management association in the financial services sector.


Sandra Matz

Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and Author

Sandra Matz is the David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and the author of Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior.


Sally Dewar

CEO of Allen & Overy’s strategic and regulatory consulting business, based in London.

Sally Dewar is the CEO of Allen & Overy’s strategic and regulatory consulting business, based in London.


Roy F. Baumeister

Author and Psychologist

Roy F. Baumeister is one of the world’s most prolific and influential psychologists. He has published over 700 scientific works, including over 40 books.


Roshni Raveendhran

Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Roshni Raveendhran is an assistant professor of business administration in the Leadership and Organizational Behavior area at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. She is also a Faculty Fellow affiliated with the Batten Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.


Rob Cross

Edward A. Madden Professor of Global Leadership, Babson College

Rob Cross is the Edward A. Madden Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Rob is also the co-founder and director of the Connected Commons, a consortium of over 150 leading organizations accelerating network research and practice.


Rimma Teper

Senior Director of Behavioural Science, Internal Audit, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)

Rimma Teper is the Senior Director of Behavioural Science at RBC Internal Audit where she leads the Behavioural Science and Risk Culture practice.


Richard Wrangham

Research Professor of Biological Anthropology (retired), Harvard University

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


Paul Seabright

Professor of Economics

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.


Nicholas Christakis

Professor of Biosocial Science, Network Science, & Behavior Genetics, Yale

Nicholas Christakis directs the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. He is the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science, appointed in the Departments of Sociology; Medicine; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University.


Mirea Raaijmakers

Former Global Head of Behavioral Risk, ING

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.


Michael Arena

Vice President, Talent & Development, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Michael Arena is the Vice President of Talent & Development for Amazon Web Services (AWS).


Michael Muthukrishna

Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics

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


Mark Cooke

Former Group Head of Operational Risk HSBC

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.


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