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Director: Philippa Foster Back OBE
Since taking a degree in Geography at University College London, Philippa has over 25 years of business experience. She began her career at Citibank NA before joining Bowater in their Corporate Treasury Department in 1979, leaving in 1988 as Group Treasurer. She was Group Finance Director at DG Gardner Group, a training organisation, prior to joining Thorn EMI in 1993 as Group Treasurer until 2000. In 2001 she was appointed Director of the Institute of Business Ethics.

As Director of the Institute she is responsible for implementing strategy, leading the team and ensuring that the Institute meets its charitable aims, of raising awareness and spreading best practice in the field of business ethics. The Institute undertakes six key activities: advisory work with companies; events; research and publications; training; education through university academics; and advocacy work in the wider business context.

She has a number of external appointments, including at the Institute of Directors where she sits on the Board and the Professional Accreditation Committee; and the Association of Corporate Treasurers, where she was President from 1999 to 2000. In 2002 she was appointed a Commissioner of the Public Works Loan Board.

In 2006 she was awarded the OBE for services to the Ministry of Defence where she was formerly a NED and Chair of the Defence Audit Committee.

Her outside interests include the history and exploration of the Polar Regions; she is Chairman of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust.

Research Director: Simon Webley
Simon has been Research Director at the Institute of Business Ethics in London since 1998. He has published a number of studies for IBE and others on codes of ethics, the most recent being Does Business Ethics Pay? and Company Us eof Codes: 2004 Survey. In 1993, he compiled the Interfaith Declaration on International Business Ethics.

After reading economics and political science at Trinity College, Dublin and National service in the RAF, he joined Reed International (now Reed Elsevir) as a research economist in 1959. From 1969 until 1998, Simon was British Director of the British-North American Committee.

In his current role at the IBE he helps a range of business companies and organisations and has spoken and written on business practice topics around the world.
He has three grown up children, three grandchildren and lives in a fifteenth century cottage in near Maidstone, Kent.

Head of Projects: Dr Nicole Dando
Dr Nicole Dando is Project Manager at the Institute of Business Ethics. She joined the IBE from the Institute of Social and Ethical AccountAbility where she was Programme Manager for the revisions to the AA1000 standard. She is an experienced facilitator and social auditor, having recently designed and implemented the first social and environmental impact assessment of a hospital for the NHS. She has a PhD in sustainable water resource management.


Operations & Projects Manager: Katherine Bradshaw
Katherine joined the Institute following a career in the music and comedy industry, with roles as general manager and press officer for, among others, Eddie Izzard, Robert Newman and the Guildford Festival. She applied her organisational skills offering freelance assistance with administration and accounts for managers working alone, before joining the Institute in November 2000 as Office Manager. She has a BA in English from Royal Holloway and an MA in Creative Writing and Personal Development from Sussex University.

Administrator: Modupe Elias
Modupe, known as Dee, joined IBE in January 2006 from the London Postgraduate Medical & Dental Education Department (The London Deanery) at the University of London, where she worked as the Training & Administration Officer for Public Health. She has a BTEC Higher National Diploma in European Business Studies from NESCOT and plans to return to University to study part time for a BA in Business Studies and Event Management. She has worked in both the Public and Private sectors for the last 12 years including, Wandsworth Borough Council, JCDecaux Ltd and Westminster Kingsway College.

Researcher: Dr Andrea Werner
Andrea has been working for the Institute of Business Ethics on a part-time basis since 2003, but 'officially' joined the IBE team in October 2006 as Researcher. Andrea has a PhD in Business Ethics from Brunel University and a degree in Business, Economics and English from the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany).

IBE aims to be an equal oportunity employer, and does not discriminate on any grounds other than the ability to work effectively. Please see our code of ethics for more information.


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