The Starling Compendium Contributors

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Jamie Fiore Higgins is a former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and is the author of Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs.

Greg Medcraft was Director of the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs of the OECD from November 2017 to July 2021 contributing guidance, strategy and support for the Directorate’s policy and standard-setting work for financial and commercial enterprises.

Elizabeth McCaul is a Former 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.

Elizabeth Broderick is an internationally recognised human rights expert, and Principal of EB&Co, a specialist consultancy focusing on high-level strategic consulting and transformation, particularly in the areas of gender equality, diversity, inclusion and cultural renewal.

Elise Bant is Professor of Private Law and Commercial Regulation at The University of Western Australia, a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, and consultant to HFW Australia.

Douglas W. Arner is the Kerry Holdings Professor in Law, an RGC Senior Fellow, and Associate Dean (Taught Postgraduate) of the Faculty of Law at The University of Hong Kong.

Clare Bolingford is the Executive Director, Regulatory Delivery for the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority (FMA). Clare is responsible for directing, planning and delivery of the FMA’s core regulatory functions across licensing, engagement and supervision of regulated individuals and firms.

Cecilia Skingsley became Head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub in September 2022. She is a member of the BIS’s Executive Committee. Previously, she held the position of First Deputy Governor of Sveriges Riksbank since November 2019.

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.

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.

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.