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About
About
Fellow of the British Academy and former governor of the LSE, where he has worked since 1987. Educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and at Girton College Cambridge, he is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management. He served on the board of St James’s Place plc from 2005-2013 where he chaired audit and risk committees; was chairman of St. James's Place International plc, based in Dublin, until 2023; and was a non-executive Director of RIT Capital Partners plc until 2023. He has also been a member of the advisory board of the Financial Reporting Council Financial Reporting Lab, and was Director of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at LSE until April 2014. He was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (1995-6) and holds honorary doctorates from: the Universities of St Gallen, Switzerland; Uppsala, Sweden; and Turku, Finland. His research and teaching focus on regulation, accounting, auditing, internal control, risk management and organisation theory. Major works include: The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification (Oxford 1997); Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management (Oxford 2007) and Riskwork: Essays on the Organizational Life of Risk Management (Oxford 2016).
Research interests
- Values and valuation processes in organizations
- The causes and social consequences of auditability, transparency and accountability
- The role of external and internal auditing in corporate governance
- Internal control systems, operational risk management, errors and risk reporting
- Financial regulation and financial reporting
- Organizations, regulation and standardization
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