Authors & Speakers

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.

Copy of - Armida Van Rij

Armida van Rij is a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House and heads its Europe Programme. She advises governments on a range of foreign, security and defence policy issues. Previously she was a Research Fellow at The Policy Institute, King’s College London.

Andrew Hessel

Peter Tertzakian

Peter Tertzakian is an economist with 30 years’ experience in the energy sector. Peter is Deputy Director of ARC Energy Research Institute and an adjunct professor at the University of Calgary. He is the author of ‘The Investor Visit’ and ‘Other Stories: Disruption, Denial, and Transition in the Energy Business’.

Professor Adam Tooze

Professor Adam Tooze is the Director of the European Institute at Columbia University and a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Financial Times amongst other publications. He is also the author of ‘Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World’ and ‘Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy’.

Dr Hannah Fry

Dr Hannah Fry is Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at University College London and a renowned broadcaster, as featured on Bloomberg Originals, BBC One and the DeepMind Podcast. Working alongside a unique mix of physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, architects and geographers, Hannah applies data to the study of humanity.

Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer for Google X, Google’s innovation arm that focuses on technologies that aim to make the world a radically better place. He is a serial entrepreneur, author of Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy and the founder of One Billion Happy.

Professor Paul Marsh

Professor Paul Marsh is Emeritus Professor of Finance at London Business School. Together with Elroy Dimson and Mike Staunton, he wrote the influential investment book ‘Triumph of the Optimists’. Since 2000, he has also produced the annual London Business School/Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook, which documents global asset returns since 1900.

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.

Anthony Hilton

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.

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.

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.

Dr Gabrielle Walker

Internationally recognised expert and author on sustainability and climate change.

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.

Paul Murphy

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

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.

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.