The Starling Compendium Contributors

Starling is honored to feature contributions from some of the leading voices in regulation and supervision, industry, the legal profession, scholars, and other thought leaders.  

› Topic: "Behavioral Science"

Richard Wrangham

Research Professor of Biological Anthropology (retired), Harvard University

Richard Wrangham is the Ruth B. Moore Research Professor of Biological Anthropology (retired) at Harvard University and founded the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in 1987.


Simon Wills

Executive Director, ORX

Simon Wills is the Executive Director of ORX. ORX, the Operational Risk Exchange, is the largest operational risk management association in the financial services sector.


Anne Walsh

Chief Investment Officer for Guggenheim Partners Investment Management and a Managing Partner of Guggenheim Partners.

Anne Walsh is Chief Investment Officer for Guggenheim Partners Investment Management and a Managing Partner of Guggenheim Partners.


Wies Wagenaar

Global Head, Centre of Expertise for Behaviour, Ethics & Compliance Learning, ABN AMRO

Wies Wagenaar is a social psychologist and serves as the Global Head for the Centre of Expertise for Behaviour, Ethics & Compliance Learning for ABN AMRO. She started her career as a crisis management consultant.


Benjamin Van Rooij

Professor of Law and Society, University of Amsterdam School of Law; Director, Center for Law and Behavior

Benjamin Van Rooij is a Professor of Law and Society at the University of Amsterdam School of Law and the Director of the Center for Law and Behavior. He studies and teaches about the interaction between law and behavior. His current research focuses on individual differences in compliance, toxic corporate culture, and assumptions about behavioral change.


Tom Tyler

Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Yale Law School

Tom Tyler is the Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School as well as a Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory. Professor Tyler’s research explores the role of justice in shaping people’s relationships with groups, organizations, communities, and societies.


Rimma Teper

Senior Director of Behavioural Science, Internal Audit, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)

Rimma Teper is the Senior Director of Behavioural Science at RBC Internal Audit where she leads the Behavioural Science and Risk Culture practice.


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Paul Seabright

Professor of Economics

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.


Stephen Scott

Founder & CEO of Starling Trust Sciences

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.


Tom Reader

Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics

Dr Tom Reader is an Associate Professor of Organisational Psychology at the London School of Economics. He directs the Masters of Science in Organisational and Social Psychology and he leads a Masters in Science and Executive course on Organisational Culture. Tom is also a chartered psychologist (MA and PhD, University of Aberdeen; Leverhulme Fellowship).


Roshni Raveendhran

Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Roshni Raveendhran is an assistant professor of business administration in the Leadership and Organizational Behavior area at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. She is also a Faculty Fellow affiliated with the Batten Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.


Mirea Raaijmakers

Former Global Head of Behavioral Risk, ING

Mirea Raaijmakers is the former Global Head of Behavioral Risk for ING. Mirea joined ING in 2017 and was appointed to her current role in August 2018. Prior to ING she worked for the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) where she developed and executed the supervision on Behaviour & Culture.


Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) Fellow at Stanford University and the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts & Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Alex 'Sandy' Pentland is a Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) Fellow at Stanford University and the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts & Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).


Ann Pendleton-Jullian

Fellow, Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

Ann Pendleton-Jullian is a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She is a writer, architect and educator whose work explores the interchange between culture, environment, and technology.


Dr. Terri Patterson

Past-Chief, US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Behavioral Analysis Unit

Dr. Terri Patterson is a psychologist who previously served as Chief of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, among a number of other roles during her 20-year career as an Executive and Special Agent at the agency.


William Onuwa

EVP and Chief Audit Executive, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)

William Onuwa is EVP and Chief Audit Executive at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Prior to this role, he was the SVP and Chief Risk Officer for Wealth Management, RBC Georgia and the Insurance Group.


Wijnand Nuijts

Manager Supervision for Governance, Culture, and Organizational Behavior

Wijnand Nuijts is the Manager Supervision for Governance, Culture, and Organizational Behavior for the Dutch National Bank.


Jason Norman Lee

Managing Director of Legal and Regulatory at Temasek

Jason Norman Lee is the Managing Director of Legal and Regulatory at Temasek.


Thomas M. Noone

Counsel and Assistant Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Tom Noon is Counsel and Assistant Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.


Michael Muthukrishna

Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics

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


Greg Medcraft

Former Director, OECD Directorate for Financial & Enterprise Affairs

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.


Sandra Matz

Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and Author

Sandra Matz is the David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and the author of Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior.


Margaret Levi

Professor Emerita of Political Science at Stanford University

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.


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