The Starling Compendium Contributors

William H. Hinman, Jr. was the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2017 to 2020 and has practiced as a corporate securities lawyer for more than 40 years.

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

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.

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.

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.

Edward (Ted) MacDonald is a member of the FICC Markets Standards Board Secretariat, is an accredited mediator and maintains active links with Ivey Business School and its Leader Character programme. As a financial services practitioner, he has held senior roles in business origination, risk management, board-level governance, and more recently, regulation.

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.

Stuart Mackintosh is the Executive Director of the Group of Thirty.

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.

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

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.

Sarah Dahlgren is the former Head of Supervision for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Currently, Sarah is a Partner in the Risk Practice at the global consultancy McKinsey & Co.

Sarah Rapson joined the FRC as Executive Director Supervision in September 2021. She is responsible for leading the FRC’s Supervision Division and its work to enhance audit quality both through standard setting and audit monitoring of firms; supervisory oversight of the Recognised Professional Bodies; and to promote improvement in corporate reporting through detailed technical reviews of companies’ annual reports and accounts.

Randal Quarles previously served as Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System from 2017 to 2021, and he was the Chairman of the Financial Stability Board from 2018 to 2021.

Peter Routledge is Canada's Superintendent of Financial Institutions.

Peter Conti-Brown is the Class of 1965 Associate Professor of Financial Regulation at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Nonresident Fellow in Economics Studies at The Brookings Institution.

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.

The New York Federal Reserve makes the US financial system stronger and more stable by executing monetary policy, delivering financial services, supervising financial institutions, and providing thought leadership.

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.

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.

Michelle Kirschner is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and co-chair of the firm’s Global Financial Regulatory group.

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 J. Hsu is the Acting Comptroller of the Currency. As Acting Comptroller of the Currency, Mr. Hsu is the administrator of the federal banking system and chief executive officer of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

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.