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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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