The Starling Compendium Contributors

Harvey Whitehouse is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He is the Director of Oxford's Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion and a founding director of Seshat, a vast database on human history that enables scholars and scientists to test hypotheses about the rise and fall of human civilizations.

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

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.

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.

John Seely Brown “JSB” was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation until April 2002, and director of the renowned Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) until June 2000.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Daniel Davies is the author of several books. He is a former Bank of England economist and investment bank analyst.

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

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.

Emily Erikson is the Joseph C. Fox Academic Director of the Fox International Fellowship and a Professor of Sociology and the School of Management (by courtesy). She has authored several books, most recently Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic.

Henry Farrell is the SNF Agora Professor of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and the 2019 recipient of the Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Politics and Technology.

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.

Jonas Heese is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting & Management Unit at Harvard Business School.

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.

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.

Sir John Kay is a Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. His interests focus on the relationships between economics and business.

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.

Margaret Levi is a Professor Emerita of Political Science at Stanford University. She serves as a Senior Fellow at both the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.