Our team apply their practical business experience to fulfil the IBE's mission.
The Institute of Business Ethics (IBE) is recruiting a new Director to lead and grow the organisation. To apply for this role, please apply via Nurole IBE Director Application.
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 Philippa Foster Back CBE
Director
As Director of the Institute, Philippa 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.
Since taking a degree in Geography at University College London, Philippa has 30 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.
In connection with her role at the IBE, she served on the Woolf Committee 2007/8, looking at ethical business practice in BAE Systems plc. She speaks widely on business ethics issues, encouraging high standards of business behaviour based on ethical values.
She sits on the Board/Advisory Board of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI), and RAND Europe. She is a Visiting Fellow of the Said Business School at Oxford University and Honorary Vice President of the Employee Ownership Association. She chairs the Antarctic Place Names Committee and is former Chairman of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust.
Philippa was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours 2006 for services to the Ministry of Defence and in July 2008 was awarded the BITC Marks & Spencer Sieff Award. In the New Year's Honours 2014 she was awarded a CBE for services to Antarctic Heritage.
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 Simon Webley
Research Director
Simon has been Research Director since 1998.
He has published numerous studies on all aspects of business ethics, the most recent being: Codes of Business Ethics: a guide to developing and implementing an effective code and examples of good practice (2016), and Towards Ethical Norms in International Business Transactions (2014).
He lectures and facilitates training on business ethics issues for organisations in many countries.
Simon is a member of the ICC’s Commission on Corporate Responsibility and Anti-Corruption, and the British Standards Institute’s (BSI) Anti-Bribery Standard Panel. Simon is a Trustee of the Kirby Laing Foundation, the Institute for Policy Research and Armonia UK. He is a member of the Rochester Diocesan Synod.
He has a Masters degree in economics and political science from Trinity College, Dublin. He joined Reed International (now Reed Elsevier) as a Research Economist in 1959. From 1969-1998, he was British Director of the British-North American Committee. He was a visiting Fellow of the City (now Cass) Business School from 1993-2003.
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 Mark Chambers
Associate Director-Governance
Mark joined the team in Sept 2019.
He was previously a Deputy Group Company Secretary and been a charity trustee for WWF and most recently as Chair of Amref Health Africa.
Mark Chambers retired as
Deputy Group Company Secretary of HSBC in 2018 to pursue a second career of
non-executive and advisory work.
After graduating in
Zoology from Oxford University, Mark re-trained as a lawyer and spent his early
years at Slaughter and May in their London and New York offices. He went on to
a successful career in business, managing world-class global functions
responsible for governance, legal and regulatory risk management in large,
complex, regulated businesses. He held the roles of General Counsel & Group
Company Secretary at RSA Insurance Group and at Worldpay Group, as well as
senior positions at American Express and GE Capital.
In parallel for many
years, Mark has had a successful career as a charity trustee, most recently as
Chair of Amref Health Africa and prior to that as a trustee of WWF, where he
chaired the Audit Committee and oversaw the development of the charity's
exemplar new headquarters building. Mark was a finalist in the 2014 Sunday
Times Non-Executive of the Year Awards.
Mark is married with two
teenage children and lives in North London.
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 Professor Chrisopher Cowton
Associate Director (Research)
Professor Chris Cowton joined the IBE as Associate Director (Research) in September 2019, having previously been a Trustee.
Professor Chris Cowton joined the IBE as Associate Director (Research) in September 2019, having previously been a Trustee.
Following a long and successful academic career, he is also Emeritus Professor at the University of Huddersfield and Visiting Professor at Leeds University’s Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre. He was previously Professor of Accounting (1996-2016), Professor of Financial Ethics (2016-2019) and Dean of the Business School (2008-2016) at Huddersfield, having joined after ten years lecturing at the University of Oxford. He is also a visiting professor at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao (Spain).
From 2009 to 2018, he was a member of the Ethics Standards Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and he has been a member of the advisory committee of the one of the first ethical investment funds in the UK.
He is the author of more than 60 journal papers, has edited three books and has written many book chapters. He was Editor of the journal Business Ethics: A European Review for a decade (2004-2013).
In 2013 he was awarded the University of Huddersfield’s first ever DLitt (Doctor of Letters, a higher doctorate) in recognition of his research in business and financial ethics.
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 Daniel Johnson
Head of Engagement
Since joining the Institute in May 2013 he has been involved with a number of IBE projects and advisory work including code reviews, survey work and authoring many of the IBE’s Business Ethics Briefings on topics including: Speak Up, Ethical Indices and Business Ethics and Corporate Reporting.
Before joining the IBE Dan worked as an apprentice at a specialist ESG consultancy.
This follows on from his Master’s degree in Corporate Social Responsibility and an Undergraduate degree in Finance, Accountancy and Management, both from the University of Nottingham.
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 Alexandra (Alex) Johnson
Marketing & Events Manager
Alex has been with the IBE since June 2010.
As the Marketing and Events Manager Alex is responsible for the development and implementation of marketing plans for all IBE activities (products and services). Alex is currently project managing the redevelopment the IBE’s website and reviewing its digital strategy.
Alex is also responsible for the management and coordination of all IBE events.
Prior to joining the IBE Alex worked with the aviation regulator, Civil Aviation Authority; a consultancy, Sovereign Strategy and barristers chambers, Cloisters. All roles were in an Events and Administration capacity. The variety of industries provided an experience of different ways of working.
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 Guendalina Donde
Head of Research
Guendalina joined the IBE team in August 2014.
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 Judi Wright
Operations Manager
Contact Judi to discuss your annual subscription fees, invoice queries, procurement, supplier issues, or to book a meeting with the Director and any other queries relating to IBE subscribers, finance, HR and facilities.
Judi brings a wealth of experience in Operations Management gained over 20+ years in both private and public sectors and with 10+ years experience in the Third Sector.
From financial management, office management, project management, customer service, IT services, procurement services, facilities management, HRM, experiencing of managing a team and coordinating various departments to deliver a comprehensive, global service. Judi joined the IBE in November 2014.
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 Jo Bridge
Events Coordinator
Jo joined the team in November 2015 from the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD).
Prior to this, Jo was at University College London (UCL), working within the UCL accommodation department.
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 Linn Byberg
Researcher
Linn joined the team in August 2018.
Before joining the IBE, Linn completed her master's degree in Comparative Politics from the University of Bergen.
She also holds a master's degree in Politics and Government in the European Union from the London School of Economics & Political Science and a bachelor's degree in International Politics from King's College London.
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Jennifer Lashley
Bookkeeper
Jennifer joined the IBE on a temporary basis in 2017 and joined as a permanent staff member a year later.
She has extensive experience of working in the charity sector in small to medium sized charities.
Jennifer is an AAT qualified accountant, and holds the CIMA Advanced Diploma qualification She believes that finance issues must be communicated well, and to that aim, she updates her knowledge and skills by attending CPD events.
Away from accounting Jennifer enjoys watching live tennis, keeps trying to learn Spanish, and is learning to cycle. She volunteers at a local arts centre, enjoys ballet, museums, film and organises staff competitions.
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Emma Darlow
Admin Assistant
Emma joined the team in June 2019, assisting the Operations Manager, in all aspects of office management
Emma has an extensive experience in the Retail sector, with a professional customer service background.
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Laura Petty
Communications Manager
An expert in global corporate communications, Laura has advised on a wide range of local and international clients at a strategic level.
Her key strengths include client and customer services, recruitment, events management, and organisational abilities. Through extensive travel, academia, volunteering and work in pertinent environments, she has gained genuine interest in responsible communications in order meaningfully to enhance an organisation’s stakeholder and employee relations.
Laura joined the IBE in November 2019, on an interim basis.
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Will O'Connor
Research Assistant
Will joined us initially as an Intern for a period of three weeks, for a specific project,
He joined as a permanent member of staff in November 2019.
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 Jane Arnott
Associate
Jane Arnott is our first overseas Associate, based in New Zealand.
Jane has led the market development and strategy for the IBE's entry into New Zealand, an initiative that followed the completion of her post-graduate studies in professional ethics.
Prior to this, Jane worked as a Senior Marketing and Communications Executive in both public and private sector organisations with a focus on primary industries. Most recently, she was Chief Executive for the Wood Council of New Zealand, responsible for domestic marketing.
For details of IBE activities in New Zealand follow this link
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 Peter Montagnon 1950-2019
IBE Associate
It is with great sadness that the IBE records the very sudden death of our colleague, Peter Montagnon, on June 25th.
He was a larger than life character who over many years made a lasting contribution to the corporate world. His journalistic approach never left him in questioning the underlying issues that needed probing.
He will be much missed as a colleague and friend and our thoughts are with his wife and family.
After graduating in Modern Languages from Cambridge University in 1972, he joined Reuters news agency as Financial Journalist. At Reuters, he completed assignments in Hong Kong, Zurich and Washington before joining the Financial Times.
For two decades from 1980, Peter was a senior journalist at the Financial Times, including spells as Head of the Lex Column and in charge of coverage of international capital markets. His last assignment, from 1994-2000, was as Asia Editor, responsible for the FT's coverage of a region stretching from Pakistan to New Zealand.
Peter served on the European Commission’s Corporate Governance Forum from 2005-2011. He served as Chairman of the Board of the International Corporate Governance Network.
He was also a visiting Professor in Corporate Governance at the Cass Business School of City University, London, a member of the Corporate Governance Advisory Board of the Norges Bank Investment Management and the Board of the Hawkamah Institute for Corporate Governance, Dubai.
Peter was Senior Investment Adviser at the Financial Reporting Council which he joined after almost ten years as Director of Investment Affairs of the Association of British Insurers.
He joined the IBE as an Associate Director in Sept 2013 and left to pursue other work in April 2019.
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