The Starling Compendium Contributors

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.

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

Simon Thompson is the Chief Executive Officer of the Chartered Banker Institute.

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.

Rose Gailey is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles’ Costa Mesa office and the global lead of the Organization Acceleration and Culture Shaping Center of Excellence.

Martin Moloney is the Secretary General of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). Prior to joining IOSCO, Martin was Director General of the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) and before that he worked as a Special Adviser on Risk and Regulation to the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI).

Kristen Jaconi is an Associate Professor of the Practice in Accounting and the Executive Director of the Peter Arkley Institute for Risk Management at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.

Joshua Rosenberg is currently an Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and was previously Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer, and Head of the Risk Group. Mr. Rosenberg was responsible for the New York Fed’s risk management framework including its approaches to operational, financial and enterprise risk. Mr. Rosenberg also served on the Executive Committee and chaired the Risk Subcommittee.

John Flint is the former Group CEO of HSBC. As of 2021, Mr. Flint was appointed to be the CEO of the UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB).

Jean-Paul Servais is Chair of the International Organization of Securities Commissions and Chair of the OECD Corporate Governance Committee.

Holly J. Gregory is a co-chair of Sidley Austin LLP’s global Corporate Governance practice and co-leads its ESG and Crisis Management teams. Holly counsels publicly held, private and not-for-profit corporations on the full range of governance issues.

Hank Huang is the President of the Taiwan Academy of Banking and Finance.

Dante A. Disparte is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy and Operations for Circle, a financial technology firm and the issuer of the world’s leading regulated digital currencies.

Christopher Rich is the General Counsel for the FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB), a standard setting body for the global wholesale fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) markets. Mr. Rich has overall responsibility for all FMSB Working Groups and their publications including Standards, Statements of Good Practice and Spotlight Reviews.

Dr. Charles McMillan was the 10th Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Carolyn Rogers is the Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada and a former Secretary General of BCBS.

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.

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.