Simon Thompson is the President of the IBE, a Senior Adviser to Rothschild & Co. and a Director of the British Geological Survey.

After working in investment banking for N. M. Rothschild and S. G. Warburg, Simon joined the Anglo American group, holding a number of senior positions including CEO of the Base Metals Division, Chairman of the Tarmac Group and Executive Director of Anglo American plc. Since leaving Anglo American, Simon has served as Chairman of 3i Group plc, Rio Tinto plc and Tullow Oil plc and as a Non-Executive Director of companies including Amec Foster Wheeler plc, AngloGold Ashanti Ltd (South Africa), Newmont Mining Corporation (USA) and Sandvik AB (Sweden).

Simon has a MA (Geology) from University College Oxford and a PhD (History) from King’s College London. He is a Senior Fellow of the Mission Possible Partnership and a member of the Energy Transition Commission.

He was appointed to the IBE Advisory Council in 2015.

Ram Gidoomal CBE FIC FCGI FRSA is also Chair of Allia (Industrial and Provident Society) Ltd and CottonConnect Ltd, board member of the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman and Honorary Member of the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University.

Past roles include UK Group Chief Executive of the Inlaks Group, Board and Council Member of Imperial College where he chaired the Research Ethics Committee, External Member of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee of the UK Equalities and Human Rights Commission, Member of the Complaints Audit Committee of the UK Border Agency and the Better Regulation Task Force, and board member of the Food Standards Agency.

Ram was also Vice-Chair of St Georges Medical School, Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at Middlesex University, Chairman of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education in England and Wales, Advisory Board member of the Relationships Foundation, a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and Co-Founder of the Christmas Cracker Charity Trust.

Jasmine was appointed to the Advisory Council in January 2024.

Jasmine is a member of the board of WPP plc where she chairs the Compensation Committee, and of Compagnie Financière Richemont SA where she chairs the Governance and Sustainability Committee. She recently stepped down as Chair of Travis Perkins.

Jasmine has over 20 years of experience of environmental, social and governance issues. As a non-executive she has served on the board of Standard Chartered plc, where she chaired the Culture and Sustainability Committee, and of BT plc, where she chaired the Digital Impact and Sustainability Committee.  In her executive career Jasmine served as Chief Executive of London First and as CEO of Save the Children.  Her leadership experience in the non-profit sector began in 1999 when she worked in West Africa with Oxfam. Prior to this Jasmine’s career was in technology marketing, holding management positions with Rio Tinto and then in the US with the venture-funded start-up Cortex Corporation, and Thomson Financial.

Jasmine was awarded a BA in English and an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Bristol and completed the Executive Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She holds dual British/Swiss nationality and is married with two grown-up children.

Iain is an expert in public policy and complex corporate communications issues.

Appointed to the IBE Advisory Council in 2017. 

Iain has over 20 years’ experience, initially as a business journalist and then as a founding shareholder at Incisive Media. He has also worked for a range of UK politicians.

Iain was part of the founding team at Cicero Group and focuses on public policy and corporate communications strategy in Europe and North America. Current clients include a number of FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies across a range of industry sectors. He regularly contributes to national and international print and broadcast media including Sky News and BBC. Iain is also contributing Political Editor at Square Mile magazine. Iain is former Chairman of the Association of Professional Political Consultants and a past Chairman of the CIPR Public Affairs group.

He was ranked in the top quartile of the Total Politics Top 100 Lobbyists and appears in the PR Week Power Book. CityAM includes him in the list of "The City’s most influential financial PRs” voted by broadcast and national business editors, and he was included in the Square Mile’s Top 100 most powerful players in the City.

He loves spending time in Nice, France and is an opera nut.

Lord Brendan Barber has been Chairman of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) since the beginning of 2014.

Most of his career was spent in the Trades Union Congress (TUC) from 1975 to the end of 2012, serving as TUC General Secretary from 2003. During his time at the TUC he served on a number of public bodies including the Council of Acas, Sport England, the UK Commission on Employment and Skills, and the Court of Directors of the Bank of England from 2003-2012.

Since leaving the TUC, as well as acting as Acas Chairman, Brendan has become Deputy Chairman of the Banking Standards Board (established in 2015), and in 2017 joined the newly established Board of BT Openreach. He also serves on the Council of City, University of London, and the Board of Trustees of the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Brendan was knighted in 2013 for services to employment relations. He was appointed to the IBE Advisory Council in 2017. 

Lord Evans was appointed to the Advisory Council in Janaury 2024.

Jonathan Evans (Lord Evans of Weardale) is a Crossbench member of the House of Lords, Chair of the Public Interest Committee at KPMG and Chair of the HALO Trust. 

Jonathan's main career was in the British Security Service MI5, where he was the Director General from 2007 to 2013. He was a Non -Executive Director of HSBC Holdings from 2013-2019 and has been a Non-Executive Director of Ark Datacentres Ltd since 2015. He is also a Visiting Professor at Kings College London. 

From 2018-2023 Jonathan was Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.

Sir Douglas Flint was Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc until he retired in 2017.

In 2010, Douglas’s responsibilities were broadened to that of Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director Risk and Regulation. He was appointed Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc on 3 December 2010.

Douglas was Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council’s review of the Turnbull Guidance on Internal Control from 2004-2005 and served on the Accounting Standards Board and the Advisory Council of the International Accounting Standards Board from 2001-2004.

He also served as a non-executive director of BP plc from 1 January 2005 until 14 April 2011 and was Chairman of its Audit Committee in his final year.

He was appointed to the IBE Advisory Council in 2017.

Annabel was appointed to the Advisory Council in 2019.

After a career in investment management, Annabel is investigating the place of ethical values and organisational culture in an AI-driven future workplace, and its impact on the changing nature of work and society. 

She spent over 20 years building institutional businesses at firms including M&G, OMAM, UBP, SWIP and Barings before retraining in AI ethics and Behavioural Science. She has been a Board Member for CFA UK and the Prudential Staff Pension Scheme, co-founded CFA UK’s ethics committee and is a member of the advisory councils of the Institute of Business Ethics and Blueprint for Better Business. 

Annabel is currently investigating the role of ethical culture in ESG investment analysis, ethical frameworks for commercial use of behavioural science and the role of ethics in building trust in a digital economy. She is an advocate for the power of ethics in delivering sustainable growth and enabling talent to flourish. 

Andrew was appointed to the Advisory Council in January 2024.

Andrew Hill is Senior Business Writer at the FT and Consulting Editor at FT Live.

He is a former FT management editor, City editor, financial editor and comment and analysis editor.

Andrew is the author of ‘Leadership in the Headlines’ (2016), a collection of his columns, and ‘Ruskinland’ (2019), about the enduring influence of Victorian thinker John Ruskin. He joined the FT in 1988 and has also worked as New York bureau chief, foreign news editor and correspondent in Brussels and Milan.

Andrew was named Business Commentator of the Year at the 2016 Comment Awards and Commentator of the Year at the 2009 Business Journalist of the Year Awards, where he also received a Decade of Excellence award.

Andrew has served as trustee and chair of Blueprint for Better Business, trustee of the Ruskin Foundation, chair of governors, Aboyne Lodge School, and a member of the Alumni Advisory Board of the University of Cambridge.

David Jackson is a lawyer and a former company secretary.

He was the Company Secretary at BP p.l.c. from 2003 to 2018 where he was actively involved in advising the Chairman, the Board and its Committees on company law and corporate governance.  Previously he was General Counsel and Company Secretary at PowerGen from 1989 to 2002 where he was responsible for all legal and company secretarial matters relating to the Board its committees and their corporate governance.  

Prior to that David held a number of legal positions with Matthew Hall, AMEC, Chloride Group, Nestle UK and Barlow Lyde & Gilbert.

David served on the BP Pensions Trustee Board for 16 years and also served as Governor of St. Edwards School. He was previously Deputy Chairman of GC100, the Association of General Counsel and Company Secretaries of the FTSE 100 and an alternate member of the Takeover Panel.

David is a Trustee of the Merchant Taylors’ Foundation.

Amanda was appointed to the Advisory Council in August 2023.

Amanda sits on the boards of British Land and Lloyds Banking Group where she Chairs the Responsible Business Committee. She is an Advisory board member of the Impact Investment Institute; she Chairs The Queens’s Reading Room a new charity set up in 2023.

Amanda stepped down after 6+ years as Chief Executive of BITC at the start of 2023.

Before joining BITC Amanda was on loan from Aviva to Project Everyone a Richard Curtis campaign for the UN to launch the Sustainable Development Goals.

Previously Amanda was a member of Aviva's Group Executive Committee for 8 years as CCMO. She led the name change and transformation from Norwich Union. Amanda has held director roles at BA Airmiles, BT, Hewlett Packard, British Gas.
She was a trustee of the National Youth Orchestra for 10 years and a member of Lord Davies Review steering group to increase the number of women on boards.

Amanda is a Fellow and Past President of the Marketing Society. She received an LVO in the New Year’s Honours 2023, OBE in 2014 and holds two Honorary Doctorates.

Chairman of the Global Compact Foundation and of the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC)

Chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group (1998- 2001), Anglo American plc (2002-09), and Hermes Equity Ownership Services (2009-2016).  

After a doctorate in geology, Sir Mark worked for Shell living in Holland, Spain, Oman, Brunei, Australia, Nigeria, Turkey, Malaysia and the UK. Director of Saudi Aramco 2007- , Accenture (2001-2015) and HSBC (2001-10).

Chairman of the FTSE ESG Advisory Committee. Vice Chairman of the United Nations Global Compact Board.

Honorary Co-Chairman of the International Tax and Investment Center 2011-, Member of the International Council for Integrated Reporting, Author of 'Responsible Leadership – lessons from the front line of sustainability and ethics'. Married to Judy with four children.

Appointed to the IBE Advisory Council in 2015.

Following a successful 35 year career with BP leading a number of commercial businesses, Chris' executive career culminated in the role of Group Vice President, Human Resource Management.

Chris was Chair of the Board of Trustees of the IBE from 2006 to 2014.

He is a former non-executive director of ICE Futures Europe and ICE Clear Europe where he chaired the Audit and Risk Committees. Chris was most recently a non-executive director of Traidcraft PLC and a trustee of Traidcraft Exchange where he chaired the Audit and Finance Committees.

Chris is a former member of the Joint Advisory Committee on the Ethics of Investment for the Methodist Church. He is a keen musician and is the organist at Barnes Methodist Church.

Marsha was appointed to the Advisory Council in July 2023.

Marsha Ramroop FRSA FIEDP is a global award-winning Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) strategist, and Founder Director of Unheard Voice Consultancy Ltd. She has formulated a culture change methodology which has been recognised as successful with an international prize from
the UN-backed conglomerate of best practice for personal and organisational development, the IFTDO, and with Brandon Hall HRD Gold Medals.

She was the inaugural Director of Inclusion and Diversity at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Her culture change programme for staff at RIBA received 100% recommendation feedback from managers and significant behavioural shift within months.

Routledge will be publishing Marsha’s Practical Guide to EDI for Architecture and the Built Environment, due in Autumn 2024.

She also works with the Cultural Intelligence Center, the global headquarters of cultural intelligence (CQ) as one of their published and highlighted thought-leaders on impactful organisational change, as well as a worldwide trainer and facilitator.

Before working full-time in inclusion, she had a 30-year career in broadcasting, 20 years of which was at the BBC.

Marsha is also a Fellow of the Institute of Equality and Diversity Professionals (FIEDP), an institute which strives to verify and set standards for the growing vocation of EDI practitioners. She’s a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA).

Ruth was appointed to the Advisory Council in 2019.

A Director and Non-Executive Director. Ruth retired from an international career in 2017 and is currently a Trustee and Vice Chair-Elect of the United World College of the Atlantic - an international sixth-form College in Wales.

She also does some freelance consultancy.

Her career became focused on solving problems at the intersection of industry, government and society, notably in the areas of food, agriculture and sustainability. She worked for both the public and private sector and was variously based in the UK, Germany, Belgium and the USA. She retired from Cargill, Inc., a $120 billion company, after a 24-year executive career holding senior positions managing international teams.

Latterly she was Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs directing a team of 200 based in 30 countries. She has also chaired UK and European industry committees and the European Centre for Public Affairs where she saw through a governance transition.

Prior to her career in Cargill, Ruth worked in policy advisor roles for the UK government (Ministry of Agriculture) in London and both the Foreign Office (UKREP) and the EU Commission (Brittan cabinet) in Brussels.

Ruth grew up in North Wales, is a graduate of Manchester University and now lives in Sussex, England.

Barbara was appointed to the IBE Advisory Council in 2019.

A non-executive director of Paragon Banking Group and of ORX, an international bank trade association on organisational risk. She is also a member of the Church of England’s Ethical Investment Advisory Group.

She is an economist by training who has worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Standard & Poor’s Corporation and JPMorgan, in New York, Paris and London.

More recently she ran a think tank on financial regulation and was Director of the St Paul’s Institute at St Paul’s Cathedral.

Loren was appointed to the Advisory Council in January 2024.

Over 27 years of diverse experience in Sales, Marketing, Business Development and General Management across 5 industries and 4 continents. Leading organisations through turn-around, start-up, transformational and high growth situations. Loren has been at the forefront of digital transformations since the late 90's.

Loren is the Chief People Officer (CPO) and Head of Corporate Affairs at the LEGO Group. Focused on utilising the people agenda to address business opportunities and challenges and creating a culture that unleashes the potential of every employee. Energised every day by the LEGO mission 'to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow' and give as many kids as possible access to the power of play. Equally focused on driving the LEGO Group's reputation as a leading player in the social and environmental responsibility arena ensuring an equally positive impact across all key external stakeholders.

Personally, putting into play the mix of a strong commercial experience, an MBA (INSEAD), a Masters Degree in Organisational Psychology (INSEAD), various coaching certifications and a deep belief that leadership is for everyone in our VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world – not just people leaders.

Robert was appointed to the IBE Advisory Council in 2019.

Director, Business Compliance and Ethics Serco Group plc

Robert joined Serco in 1989, to develop new business within the commercial sector. Over the next 10 years he worked in both business development and operations management. In 1999 he was seconded to the Serco Institute and then joined the Serco Best Practice Centre focusing on operational processes. In 2001 he set up Serco’s Corporate Assurance Group (CAG).

This group, reporting to the plc board, designed and developed the Serco Management System and assumed responsibilities for risk management, ethics, health and safety, environment and internal audit. In 2010 CAG was merged into the Governance Team. Since then Robert has led a review of internal audit which saw a change in our external internal auditors; a review of risk management introducing a risk dashboard and proper development of a Group risk register, a comprehensive review of all company policy and standard’s defined within the ‘Serco Management System’ and clear inclusion of expected processes and controls, revised and reissued Serco’s Code of Conduct and has led a programme focussed on ethical behaviour and understanding, particularly focusing on anti-bribery and corruption following the enactment of the UK Bribery Act. Robert led on several initiatives relating to corporate renewal including the Culture stream of work resulting in the refresh and relaunch of Serco’s values. Robert is Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP-I).

Current responsibilities cover health, safety and environment, ethics and elements of ethical compliance covering business conduct and standards of behaviour, anti-corruption and competitive behaviour and human rights.

Robert is a Chartered Director, Honorary Life Fellow of the Institute of Directors and sits on their IoD Accreditation and Standards Committee. He is also a Lay Trustee of the Royal College of Pathologists sitting on the Board and Chairs their Governance and Nominations Committees.

Laura joined the Board of Trustees in 2011; she stepped down as a trustee in 2017 and subsequently joined the Advisory Council.

Laura J. Spence is Professor of Business Ethics and Sustainability at King’s College London. A Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, she is a member of the Centre for Sustainable Business at King’s Business School and is an expert on the social and ethical aspects of business in relation to global challenges such as social justice, climate change and inequalities. Laura uses organisation, social and ethical theory in her work, favouring critical perspectives.

Her empirical work tends to reach beyond standard corporate perspectives, to include small and medium sized enterprises, supply chains and the global south. She prefers to work across disciplines and has published in journals such as Accounting Organizations and Society, British Journal of Management, Business Ethics Quarterly, Human Relations, and Organization Studies.

Professor Spence is a Consulting Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics, and co-author of the market-leading textbook Business Ethics (Oxford University Press). At Oxford University Laura is an International Research Fellow at the Centre for Corporate Reputation and Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College.

Paul was appointed to the Advisory Council in July 2023.

Paul has worked in global financial markets for close to 3 decades and has direct knowledge of EMEA and APAC markets from his time living and working in both regions. He also has extensive experience of working in LATAM and across the Americas and views himself as a Global Citizen with true global experience. This experience has allowed Paul to develop his knowledge of the etiquette of doing business in different markets and across different cultures and the importance of strong ethics and respect in your approach to business.

Paul likes to describe himself as having D&I in his DNA as he was both born with a congenital defect (Microtia Atresia and is profoundly deaf on his right side) and is a gay man.

He is now focused on a portfolio of NED and Trustee type roles and alongside his role with the IBE he is both a Fellow of the London Institute of Banking and Finance (LIBF) and a Member of the Board of Companions and Chartered Companion of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

John was appointed to the Advisory Council in 2019.

John was a trustee of IBE from 2015 to 2019.

He has a professional background in corporate communications, advertising and marketing. He was a co-founder and former Chair of the communications consultancy Fishburn Hedges, now FleishmanHillard.Fishburn. He particularly specialised in reputation management and corporate responsibility, and in the 1990’s set up its corporate responsibility and ethics practice, one of the first in a mainstream communications agency. He has advised global and local clients ranging from Shell and PwC to Novartis and McDonald’s.

Since then, he has taken on a number of advisory and non-executive roles, notably in the charity sector, focusing particularly on leadership and governance. He served as a Charity Commissioner for five years up to 2010; was Chair of the governance and leadership think tank Tomorrow’s Company; and Deputy Chair of ChildLine up to its merger with the NSPCC. He has also chaired a regional tourism board and a commercial theatre production company.

John currently works as a charity governance consultant, a mentor and serves as Vice Chair of the Association of Chairs, set up in 2013 to support Chairs of charities and other non-profits and to promote good governance. He is also a long-standing board member of Business in the Community and has been involved in many of its campaigns from race at work and the rural economy to improving mental health in the workplace.