The Starling Compendium Contributors

Colin Mayer is an Emeritus Professor of Management Studies at Saïd Business School and a Visiting Professor at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.

Nicolai Tangen is the Chief Executive Officer of Norges Bank Investment Management, Norway’s $1.5 trillion sovereign wealth fund.

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

Shigeru Ariizumi is Vice Minister for International Affairs of the Financial Services Agency (FSA) of Japan. He plays leading roles in various international fora. He is a member of the FSB Plenary and serves as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the IAIS and the Vice Chair of the Board of IOSCO.

Maria Ana Barata is a senior policy advisor to the European Banking Federation for Prudential Policy & Supervision

Anna Bligh has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Banking Association since 2017. While working to strengthen bank culture and rebuild trust following the Hayne Royal Commission, Anna also drove the industry’s response to COVID-19.

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.

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

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.

Jay Clayton previously served as Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission from 2017 to 2022.

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.

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

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.

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.

Jonathan Davidson is a former Executive Director of Supervision and Authorisations for the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). He is currently a Senior Advisor to the FCA on Sustainability and Climate Change.

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

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.

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.

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.

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).