Management structure of the CBR

Dr Catherine Barnard is Professor of European Union Law at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Law.

Frederique Dahan presently serves as a Principal Research Fellow in the Development and Public Finance Programme at ODI, an independent, global think tank. She is developing a body of work on Multilateral Development Banks and Development Financial Institutions and blended finance as well as looking at sovereign debt restructuring in emerging and developing countries.

Frederique spent 2 decades at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, working first on policy engagements in the financial sector (with a focus on law, regulation and institutions) and subsequent in the Financial Institution Banking Department, where she led blended finance programmes, engaged with donors such as the EU, SIDA, and US Treasury. She has published several articles on financial law reform emerging markets and edited two books. One (with John Simpson) on Secured Transactions Reform and Access to Credit, 2008, Elgar; and the second, entitled Research Handbook on Secured Financing in Commercial Transactions, also published in 2015 by Elgar. She holds a PhD in Comparative Law from the University of Paris Panthéon- Sorbonne and is a qualified lawyer in France.

BA and PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge; Bigelow Fellow, University of Chicago Law School, 1986-87; Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary College, London, 1987-90; Lecturer, then Reader, in the Faculty of Law at Cambridge between 1990 and 2001; Robert Monks Professor of Corporate Governance, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, 2001-6; Acting Director, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, Jan 2005-Dec 2006; Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, and Senior Research Associate, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, 2006 onwards. Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia University, 2003, 2008; Visiting Professor of Management and Omron Fellow, Doshisha University, Kyoto, 2004-onwards; Visiting Fellow, Nantes (1993, 1995), Melbourne (1998), European University Institute, Florence (2004). Elected Fellow of the British Academy, 2005. ILO Social Policy Lecturer, Central European University, Budapest, 2001; Tanner Lecturer, University of Oxford, 2008. Present research projects include work on law, finance and development; reflexive governance in the public interest; gender equality and corporate social responsibility; pension fund activism; and capabilities and labour markets in Europe.

Tom Goodwin is a civil servant at the Department for International Trade where he is responsible for advising ministers on multilateral trade policy and UK relations with the World Trade Organization.

He previously served as head of the trade team at the UK Mission to the WTO where, in addition to overall responsibility for the World Trade Organization affairs he chaired the WTO Committee on Trade in Financial Services. He was for two years Senior Counsellor at the World Intellectual Property Organization, advising on intellectual property, health and development.

Tom Goodwin studied economics at Warwick University, law at Middlesex University and EU affairs at South Bank Polytechnic. He joined the Centre for Business Research upon its establishment and undertook research and published on trust in interfirm contracting before moving into government service.

Michael Kitson is Assistant Director at the Centre for Business Research. He is Director of the Management Studies Tripos and University Senior Lecturer in International Macroeconomics at the Cambridge Judge Business School and a Fellow of St Catharine’s College. He is a co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics. He has been an expert witness for the House of Lords enquiry into globalisation. Previously he was a Research Officer at the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge and a College Teaching Officer at St Catharine’s College Cambridge. His research interests include macroeconomic policy and performance; international trade; industrial economics; regional economics; corporate performance.

Simon Marsh is a Director at the Chemical Industries Association. The Association acts as the key source of advice and as the collective voice of chemical businesses located across the UK. Simon has a broad remit of Communications Director, Company Secretary and Education & Employment Policy Director. His work currently focuses on the governance of the Association – where Board membership is drawn from member companies, dialogue with the chemical industry’s stakeholders and the education and employment policy positioning for the sector. His policy responsibilities include lobbying on education and employment matters, spreading best practice across chemical companies on workforce issues and a national relationship with the trade unions that operate in the sector.

John Naughton is a Senior Research Fellow at CRASSH, Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University, Director of the Press Fellowship Programme at Wolfson College and the technology columnist of the Observer.

Jacqueline O’Reilly is full Professor of Comparative HRM at the University of Sussex Business School and Co-Director for the ESRC £8 million investment in the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (2020-2024).

She is the UK lead on the Horizon 2020 EUROSHIP project on social protection in Europe (2020-2023). Previously, she co-ordinated EU STYLE: Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe (2014-2017) and was UK lead on the EU NEGOTIATE project (2015-2018).

Her most recent research focuses on the digital transformation of work, labour market policy and international comparisons of gender, ethnicity and labour market transitions across the life course.

She completed her doctorate at Nuffield College, University of Oxford on an Anglo-French comparison of employment practices in the banking sector. She worked for 10 years at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), Germany, and at Sciences Politiques in Paris, London, Manchester and Brighton Universities in the UK.

In 2000 she was awarded a Jean Monnet Research Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence. She is a visiting research fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Sciences Politiques, Paris, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Wirthschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftes Institut (WSI), Dusseldorf.

She has served on the editorial board of the BJIR, Socio-Economic Review, and Work, Employment and Society where she was also Chair of the editorial board. She was elected twice to the Executive Council of SASE, and is President-elect of SASE. In 2019 she was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences for her distinguished contribution to the field of interdisciplinary research.

She has been consulted by HM Treasury, Full Employment Team and the UK Cabinet Office Open Innovation Unit on equal pay and youth employment. She is an Evaluation Rapporteur for the European Commission Horizon 2020 research programme, was invited as an advisor to the ILO Work4Youth programme funded by The MasterCard Foundation, and was an evaluator on 2 occasions for the German Excellence Initiative of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (€151 million investment).

Professor Jennifer Rubin is the Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser and Director General Science, Technology, Analysis, Research and Strategy. She joined the Home Office from her role as Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), leading on both National Security and Diversity and Inclusion for UKRI.

Jennifer was a postdoctoral Visiting Scholar at Harvard after completing her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge in Social and Political Sciences, and has since built and led research programmes and institutes inside and outside academia. She is Professor of Public Policy at King’s College London, Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford and UK subject expert on NATO’s taskforce on ethnic intolerance in the military. Before becoming a Professor at King’s, Jennifer was Executive Vice President of RAND’s European offices, and has advised the Executive offices of the UK and other European governments, the US, New Zealand and the European Commission. Jennifer has also provided research, evaluation and strategy advice to NGOs and foundations nationally and internationally.

Isabelle Schömann was elected Confederal Secretary at the ETUC’s 14th Congress in Vienna in May 2019. She heads ETUC policy on workers’ participation, industrial policy, legal affairs and human rights, single market legislation and digitalisation.

Previously, she was a principal adviser to the Regulatory Scrutiny Board of the European Commission providing quality control of all impact assessments and major evaluations by Commission services.

From 2005 to 2016, she was a senior researcher with the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in Brussels, covering European social dialogue and European and comparative labour law, corporate governance and workers’ participation, fundamental social rights. She carried extensive research on the impacts of the 2008 crisis on workers’ rights and on the Commission’s Regulatory and Fitness Performance Programme (REFIT) on labour rights. Isabelle was legal advisor to the European Economic and Social Committee Workers’ Group on the European Pillar of Social Rights.

Former research fellow of the Berlin Social Science Center, Germany, she holds a postgraduate degree in social and labour law from the Sorbonne in Paris and has authored and co-authored a wide range of authoritative studies on trade union issues.

Isabel is a partner at Slaughter and May. She specialises in competition law and advises across a range of industries, including regulated industries, as regards merger control, general competition law, sectoral regulatory requirements, and public procurement. She has a particular interest in State aid law. Before joining the firm as a trainee solicitor Isabel worked as a research assistant at the Law Commission.

Janet is a Senior Policy Officer in the TUC’s Economic and Social Affairs Department responsible for policy on corporate governance, institutional investment, executive pay and corporate social responsibility. She is the Chair of Trade Union Share Owners, an initiative that brings together union funds to collaborate on voting and engagement at company AGMs, and a trustee of the TUC Superannuation Society. Janet also contributes to TUC pensions policy and campaigning.