Authors & Speakers

Dr Sean Brocklebank

Dr Sean Brocklebank is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of Economics at the University of Edinburgh. His areas of expertise are focused on macroeconomics and statistics. Sean holds an MSc and PhD in Economics from the University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto.

Matteo Renzi

Matteo Renzi is the youngest person to serve as Italian Prime Minister, from 2014 to 2016. Matteo is currently an Italian Senator and leader of the Italia Viva party. He has a wealth of experience in the field of political and economic issues, both at home and abroad and he continues to wield considerable influence over contemporary politics.

Brian Caplen

Brian Caplen has been editor of The Banker since 2003. He frequently chairs discussions on financial topics as well as commenting on banking topics for the BBC and CNN.

Oliver Balch

Oliver Balch is an author and writer specialising in the role of business in society. He has written for The Guardian and the Financial Times among others.

Rosey Hurst

Rosey Hurst is the Founder and Director of Impactt, an ethical trade consultancy that looks at labour standards in factories around the world and how workers are treated. She has spoken at our client conferences in the past and contributed to our Research Journal on a number of occasions. In addition, the Research team at Walter Scott regularly taps into Rosey’s expertise and her network has been instrumental in a number of important research trips aimed at understanding the challenges within the global supply chains that retailer and apparel companies so rely on.

Anthony Hilton

Paul Murphy

Paul Murphy is Investigations Editor at the Financial Times. He founded Alphaville, the FT’s financial blog, in 2006.

Peter Montagnon

Peter Montagnon is one of the most influential figures in the corporate governance field. Former Chairman of the International Corporate Governance Network, he has served on the European Commission’s Corporate Governance Forum for more than a decade and is visiting Professor in Corporate Governance at the Cass Business School of the City University, London. Montagnon is also Associate Director at the Institute of Business Ethics, which encourages high standards of business behaviour based on ethical values. He believes companies, investors and policymakers are in danger of misunderstanding shareholders’ fundamental rights and responsibilities.

Bill Emmott

Bill Emmott was editor-in-chief of The Economist from 1993 to 2006. He is now chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Japan Society of the UK and Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute. His next book, Japan’s Far More Female Future, will be published in summer 2020. In 2017, Bill spoke at the Walter Scott Lecture Series in Tokyo.

Ben Sparrow

Ben Sparrow is a co-founder and Director of Shinka Management. Members of Walter Scott’s Research team joined Shinka Management’s Lean Japan Tour and undertook its Kaizen Japan Training.

Dr Gabrielle Walker

Internationally recognised expert and author on sustainability and climate change.