RAF commission and VR service in counter intelligence.
Cambridge degree in mathematics, qualified as chartered
accountant with today's Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Management
Accounting roles in BOC, RTZ, J.Lyons and Managing Director
for United Biscuits in Germany/Austria. Headhunted into
BAT as Chief Auditor, instrumental in forming Audit
Committees in over 40 countries, ran computer audit
courses all over South America, India, Nigeria as well
in the UK. Following retirement from BAT, headhunted
into the NHS as a management consultant for 5 years.
Currently a trustee with 3 charities, work for the Princes
Trust and a governor for 2 schools. Civil Service interpreter
in Russian and German speaker.
Jane Collier is Senior Research Associate at the Judge
Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, and
Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics and Management
Studies at Lucy Cavendish College. Dr Collier's main
research interests are in the field of corporate social
responsibility, investor engagement, global governance
and interdisciplinary approaches to corporate, public
and professional ethics.
She is sometime Editor of Business Ethics: a European
Review, and currently Book Review Editor for Business
Ethics Quarterly. 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 is currently associated with the launch
of Volkswagen's virtual corporate graduate university,
and will deliver an ethics module to its students.
Tim Cullen is an Associate Fellow and Director of the
Oxford Programme on Negotiation at Saïd Business
School, in which he teaches ethics in negotiation. His
consulting firm, TCA 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 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, and on Yugoslavia and its successor
countries. Tim received an MA from Trinity College,
Dublin, Ireland. He is a guest lecturer at Örebro
University in Sweden and the Indian School of Business.
Muriel Johnson has a BSc in textile chemistry and 32
years experience in supply chains working until recently
for a well know high street retailer. She has 5 years
experience living and working in Asia, especially China
and brings a wealth of practical experience in managing
ethical issues in complex supply chains.
Until her recent retirement she was responsible for
the creation of an ethical supply chain management system
which has earned the retailer the highest accolades
in this very important part of any corporate social
responsibility programme.
Chris has spent his career to date in the oil and energy
sector and his experience is international. He joined
BP in 1970 and has worked his way upward through Supply,
Refining and Marketing roles, including time in Rotterdam,
the United States and Madrid, where he led BP's market
entry to Spain. Having led Air BP, he moved as Chief
Executive to BP Oil UK and then to Oil Trading International
during which time he served as Deputy Chairman of ICE
Futures Holdings PLC. Latterly Group Vice President,
Human Resources for BP, heading a global team of 1800
HR professionals responsible for 100,000 employees,
he has also held a number of important posts in industry
related bodies and government task forces including
the Energy Institute, UK Petroleum Industry Association
and the Civil Service Management Board sub-committee
on Professional Skills for Government. In June 2006
Chris was appointed Visiting Executive Professor at
Henley Management College. He has served as a Trustee
of the IBE since September 2005 and was appointed Chairman
in September 2006.
Former head of Public Affairs at Sky, and former board
director and Head of Corporate Responsibility at Fishburn
Hedges. Martin was a civil servant in the Cabinet Office
for over a decade and is a former Head of Public Policy
at NatWest. He is a trustee of Public Concern at Work,
the whistleblowers' charity.
Archie Robertson was appointed as Chief Executive of
the Highways Agency November 2003. The Highways Agency
is now in an almost unique position for a national roads
administration in functioning fully as a Network operator
for 8000km of the country's motorways and strategic
trunk roads. In addition to traditional roles building
and maintaining roads, the Agency has a national command
and control network, motorway coverage by traffic officers,
technology to actively manage traffic flows and diverse
channels of information provision for road using customers.
The network is one of the world's busiest, and although
Highways Agency roads comprise only 8% of the total
national road length, they carry 34% of all traffic
and 67% of all freight. This network represents the
Government's single largest public investment, currently
valued at £80bn.
Archie joined the Highways Agency from the Environment
Agency for England and Wales, where he was Director
of Operations. He was part of the Board team that established
the Environment Agency in 1996. His day job included
dealing with major floods, droughts, major pollution
incidents and the environmental aspects of other events
such as shipwrecks, air crashes and animal disease outbreaks.
He was awarded the OBE in the 2002 New Years Honours
List for his work during national emergencies.
Archie's previous career was spent entirely 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 is a graduate in chemistry and economics, a Fellow
of the Institution of Highways and Transportation, and
a member of the Green Alliance.
Michael is Principal of N&G Financial Management,
which specialises in helping businesses across Europe
optimise their working capital management and treasury
matters. Prior to this he was Director of Corporate
Development at Thorn plc, having joined ThornEMI to
build Thorn's international treasury operations upon
its demerger from EMI. He held Group Treasurer and other
treasury, finance and corporate development positions
at Unigate plc and Varity Corporation, after joining
Massey Ferguson as a corporate lawyer. He has an LLB
from Southampton University, is a Member of the Association
of Corporate Treasurers, and a solicitor.
