Post Office Scandal – Lessons in Corporate Governance

dr. Roger Barker

Dr. Roger Barker leads the IoD’s policy and thought leadership activities, and is a member of the IoD Management Team. Originally trained as a professional economist, dr. Barker is an expert in corporate governance and directorship, and the author of numerous books and articles in the field, including ‘The Effective Board: Building Individual and Board Success’ (Kogan Page); ‘Corporate Governance and Investment Management: The Promises and Limitations of the New Financial Economy’ (Edward Elgar); and ‘Corporate Governance, Competition, and Political Parties: Explaining Corporate Governance Change in Europe’ (Oxford University Press).

Dr. Barker served as Director of Corporate Governance and Professional Standards at the IoD between 2008 and 2016. Between 2016 and 2020, he ran a successful corporate governance advisory company specialising in board and governance evaluations and director training. Prior to the UK’s exit from the European Union, Dr. Barker was a UK-appointed member of the European Economic and Social Committee. In the first part of his career, Barker was an investment banker, spending almost 15 years in a variety of equity research and senior management roles at UBS and Bank Vontobel, both in the UK and Switzerland. He has a doctorate from Oxford University and taught politics at Merton College, Oxford (2005-2008).

dr. Miha Škerlavaj

Dr. Miha Škerlavaj is a professor of management at the School of Business and Economics, University of Ljubljana, and an adjunct professor of leadership and organizational behavior at BI Norwegian Business School. He is a valued teacher, workshop facilitator, and awarded researcher who has published in prestigious international research journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, the Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Leadership Quarterly, and Human Resource Management. He also published the books Post-Heroic Leadership and Capitalizing on Creativity and a case study about Outfit7 at INSEAD Case Publishing. His research received attention in global media such as Forbes and The New York Times. He is involved in several international research collaborations with colleagues from top global business schools. He has extensive practical experience through workshops, trainings, and consulting assignments for clients in Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe, and China. Prof. Škerlavaj teaches PhD, EMBA, executive, and Master of Science programs in Europe and Asia and regularly facilitates workshops with practitioners on organizational development and change, leadership development, human resource management, creativity, and innovation management-related topics.

Dr. Miha Škerlavaj, je prodekan za raziskovalno delo in doktorski študij, redni profesor za področje managementa na Ekonomski Fakulteti v Ljubljani in pridruženi redni profesor vodenja in organizacijskega vedenja na BI Norwegian Business School.

Je cenjeni predavatelj, moderator delavnic in nagrajeni raziskovalec z objavami v prestižnih mednarodnih znanstvenih revijah kot so Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Leadership Quarterly in Human Resource Management. Objavil je tudi knjigi Post-heroic leadership in Capitalizing on creativity: Fostering the implementation of creative ideas at work ter študijo primera o Outfit7 prek ugledne mednarodne založbe INSEAD Case Publishing.

Njegove raziskave so požele zanimanje vodilnih svetovnih medijev kot je npr. The New York Times. Vključen je v več mednarodnih raziskovalnih projektov s sodelavci iz vodilnih svetovnih poslovnih šol. Ima obsežne mednarodne praktične izkušnje preko delavnic, usposabljanj in svetovanj strankam v Skandinaviji, Srednji in vzhodni Evropi, in na Kitajskem. Poučuje na doktorskem, EMBA, executive, in magistrskih programih v Evropi in Aziji in redno moderira delavnice s praktiki na temo organizacijskega razvoja in sprememb, razvoja vodij, ravnanja z ljudmi pri delu, ustvarjalnosti in inovativnosti.