The Starling Compendium Contributors

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

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.

Senator Andrew Bragg is the Chair of the Select Committee on Australia as a Technology & Financial Center. Andrew Bragg is a Liberal Senator for New South Wales. Prior to his election to Federal Parliament in 2019, Andrew was an author and accountant.

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

Christopher Calabia is the Chief Executive for the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA). Chris is an experienced supervisor with expertise in global standards and innovation. Prior to his appointment, Chris worked from 2017-2021 at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as the Senior Advisor for Supervisory & Regulatory Policy in Financial Services for the Poor.

Damon Centola is the Elihu Katz Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Network Dynamics Group. He is also a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Author of two books, most recently Change: How to Make Big Things Happen, his research centers on social networks and behavior change.

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.

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.

As Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council (2017-2018), Gary Cohn managed the US economic policy agenda, stimulating economic expansion, job creation, and wage increases through historic tax and regulatory reform. Prior to that he was the President and Chief Operating Officer at Goldman Sachs where he worked for more than 25 years.

Karen S. Cook is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology; Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS); and Vice-Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Stanford. She conducts research on social interaction, social networks, social exchange, and trust. She has edited or co-authored numerous books and articles on the subject of trust in the organization.

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.

Professor Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and the author of the book Cogs & Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be.

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.

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.

Robin Dunbar is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford, an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, and an elected Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Anthropological Institute, and an elected Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science & Letters.

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.

Antoine Ferrere is Global Head of Behavioral and Data Science at Novartis.

Adam D. Fine conducts research at the intersection of psychology, law, public policy, and criminology.

Brandon L. Garrett, a leading scholar of criminal justice outcomes, evidence, and constitutional rights, is the inaugural L. Neil Williams, Jr. Professor of Law and director of the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke Law, an initiative that brings together faculty and students to improve criminal justice outcomes.

Hiroki Habuka is an attorney at law qualified in Japan and New York State and a lecturer at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Public Policy. He is a former Deputy Director for Global Digital Governance at Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan (METI).

Todd Haugh is an Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. His scholarship focuses on white collar and corporate crime, business and behavioral ethics, and federal sentencing policy, exploring the decision-making processes of the players most central to the commission and adjudication of economic crime and unethical business conduct.

James Hennessy is a senior vice president and senior advisor in the Supervision Group at the New York Fed. Since 2014 he has led the bank's Governance and Culture Reform Initiative.

Linda Jeng is a Visiting Scholar on Financial Technology and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Her research interests include open banking, digital currencies, data rights and customer liability.

Nancy Harrington Jones is the Chief Culture & Conduct Officer at Societe Generale for the Americas. In this role, Ms. Harrington Jones leads the management and drives the implementation of the Bank’s regional Culture & Conduct program.