Edward Bickham is an independent consultant on communication, political risk and corporate responsibility issues. He was previously Executive Vice President, External Relations at Anglo American plc for ten years in which role, inter alia, he led the development of the company’s innovative Socio Economic Assessment Toolbox (SEAT process) for improving operations’ interactions with stakeholders and their local development outcomes, and of the Company’s Business Principles and Business Integrity performance standards.
From 1993 until 2000 he was Managing Director, Public and Corporate Affairs at Hill & Knowlton and from 1988 to the end of 1990 he was Executive Director, Corporate Affairs for British Satellite Broadcasting. He has served as Special Adviser, over seven years, in three Government Departments: the Northern Ireland Office (1983-85), the Home Office (1985-88) and the Foreign Office (1991-93). He graduated in law from St John’s College, Oxford.

Jane Collier is Senior Research Associate and Fellow at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and Emeritus Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College. Dr Collier's main research interests are in the field of corporate social responsibility, investor engagement and collaboration, global governance, issues related to social enterprise, and interdisciplinary approaches to corporate, public and professional ethics. She is sometime Editor of Business Ethics: a European Review, and serves on its editorial board and as Book Reviews Editor. She is a member of IABS, EBEN and ISBEE (business ethics professional bodies), and is on the Advisory Board of the Responsible Shareholding Unit of CIS. She serves as the Bishops Representative on the Oxford and Cambridge Catholic Education Board (OCCEB). She is currently collaborating with Judge students seeking to establish a Business and Society group.

Tim Cullen is an Associate Fellow and Director of the Oxford Programme on Negotiation at the Saïd Business School, in which he teaches ethics in negotiation. He also teaches all aspects of negotiation as a guest lecturer in Europe, Asia and North America. His consulting firm, TCA Ltd, International Policy Management, focuses on issues of economic development, governance and integrity. He is also a Commissioner on the Financial Supervision Commission of the Isle of Man Government. After working for Ford Motor Company and Continental Bank, he spent 21 years with the World Bank, including six years as Chief Spokesman. He has written extensively on sustainable development, governance, negotiation, and on Yugoslavia and its successor countries. Tim received an MA from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Archie Robertson served in the UK Public Sector from 1995 to 2008. He was Chief Executive of the Highways Agency from November 2003 until June 2008. During that assignment he was also a member of the Department for Transport Management Board, a member of the Commission for Integrated Transport, and the Motorist’s forum. In 2007 he led the Fair Payments Working Group for the Public Sector Construction Clients Forum.
From 1995 to 2003 he was Director of Operations, and one of the founding Directors of the Environment Agency for England and Wales.
Archie's previous career was spent in London, Europe, the Far East and Australasia, working in BP's international downstream operations. His final role was running BP Oil Europe's Transport Distribution network, responsible for operations in 12 countries as Head of Distribution.
He was awarded the OBE in the 2002 New Years Honours List for his work during national emergencies.
He is a graduate in chemistry and economics from the University of Stirling, in 2005 was elected a Fellow of the Institution of Highways and Transportation.
In 2006 he was the Daily Telegraph Public Sector Power 100 Award Winner
He is a member of the Green Alliance, and a life member of the John Muir Trust.