Live stream - Global Ethics Day 2025

Flora Page, Barrister, 23ES Chambers
Flora Page KC is a barrister at 23ES Chambers. Her unique practice arises from an abiding interest in corporate misconduct. She acts for prosecuting authorities, corporates and individuals in relation to crime, whistleblowing and other investigations. She appeared at the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry on behalf of a group of prominent Subpostmasters. She is Chair of the Institute of Business Ethics, and she is a Member of the Legal Services Board.

Victoria Andrew, Chair, ICAEW Ethics Standards Committee
Vicky has been a volunteer and active member of the profession for over a decade and currently serves on four ICAEW committees (including both Ethics Committees), as well as being an elected member of the ICAEW Council. Having trained with one of the largest firms, Vicky moved on to work in smaller practices, eventually setting up her practice, which she grew and ran successfully for 22 years before merging it with a slightly larger firm in her locality. For the past eight years, she has worked as a consultant, writer, and presenter, specialising in micro-businesses and micro-practices (with a turnover of up to £1 million). It is the needs of these organisations that inform her approach to business ethics.

Caroline Smale, Deputy President, ICAEW
Caroline joined the profession as a graduate trainee in 1988 with a medium size practice – Bishop Fleming. For some years she was an audit manager for the firm and now heads up the Risk and Compliance department. She is a Past-President of ICAEW South West and sits on the South West Local Network Board as the Diversity representative. Wherever possible she supports female and younger members and has a mentoring role within the firm.

Brendan Weekes, Associate Director, Forensic Services, Evelyn Partners
Brendan is part of a specialist team comprising accountants, investigators and computer forensics professionals.
He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2009 and specialises in forensic accounting. His experience also includes dispute resolution services, asset tracing and criminal defence. Brendan’s experience covers many industry sectors including technology, media, financial services and the not-for-profit sector. He has worked internationally, having conducted investigations in the UK, Middle East and Eastern Europe. He is also a Trustee director of the Fraud Advisory Panel, a leading counter fraud charity in the UK. Brendan regularly contributes to the Panel’s activities, including presenting on forensic accounting, fraud and fraud prevention.

Kate Caulkin, Director of People and Operational Insights Team, National Audit Office
Kate is an HR and project delivery expert and leads the People and Operational Management Insights team. Kate has worked in the civil service for 30 years in corporate centre roles, including in the Cabinet Office, as Group Human Resources Director at the Department for Transport, and as Co-Director of the Corporate Centre at the Department for Exiting the EU. Kate is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Anna Myers, Executive Director, Whistleblowing International Network 
Anna Myers is Executive Director of the Whistleblowing International Network (WIN), an international civil society network with 38 membership organisations in 25 countries. Originally from Canada, and a qualified UK lawyer, Anna was Deputy Director of Public Concern at Work (now called Protect) in London and worked for the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) in Strasbourg. She has advised the Council of Europe and drafted both the UNODC Resource Guide on Good Practices in the Protection of Reporting Persons (2014) and most recently, the IFAC-CPA Canada international guide Understanding Whistleblower Protection (2023). Under her leadership, WIN helped secure an EU Directive to protect whistleblowers and set up the EU Whistleblowing Monitor to track progress in transposition and quality of implementation.

Neil Swift, Partner, Peters & Peters
Neil has extensive experience advising individual and corporate clients facing investigations by domestic and overseas law enforcement and regulatory authorities. He is a regular speaker on corruption, fraud, and corporate criminal liability. Neil advises on investigations, prosecutions, and enforcement actions by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). He has significant experience supporting key participants in high-profile, international financial crime and corruption cases, often within multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional teams. Recognised by Legal 500 2024 across multiple categories, Neil is particularly noted for his SFO work, successfully defending clients in several high-profile investigations. He is also known for his expertise in business crime, criminal tax fraud, civil cases, and leading contentious financial services regulatory matters. Neil is ranked in Chambers 2025 for POCA & Asset Forfeiture, Tax: Contentious: Fraud, and Financial Crime: Individuals. He is also ranked in Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2024 for Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals.

Nick Dale, Director of Intelligence, Stop the Traffik
Nick served over two decades with West Midlands Police in the United Kingdom. His commitment to disrupting exploitation began in Birmingham, where he worked across policing ranks to tackle organised crime, with a particular focus on human trafficking and exploitation. In 2015, Nick led Operation Fort, the largest modern slavery investigation in UK history. This operation identified around 400 victims and led to the conviction of over a dozen traffickers. His experience highlighted the critical role data plays in uncovering hidden networks of exploitation. Through multiple roles in local policing and intelligence, Nick consistently focused on organised exploitation, sexual exploitation, and county lines trafficking. In October 2024, Nick took on a new challenge as Director of Intelligence for global human trafficking charity Stop the Traffik.

Katherine Bradshaw, Founder, Gowpen
Katherine is the author of Encouraging a Speak Up Culture and Communicating Ethical Values Internally. She has supported some of the world’s biggest organisations in the development of strategies to support their organisational culture for over 25 years, previously at the Institute of Business Ethics.Katherine is a subject matter expert on speaking up in the workplace. Most recently she supported the work of Freedom to Speak Up Guardians who help workers in the NHS in England to speak up and be heard. Having obtained postgraduate qualification in the Psychology of Kindness and Wellbeing at Work from the University of Sussex, she founded Gowpen. Gowpen works to connect ethical business practice and wellbeing to truly nurture workplaces so that we can feel our best, give our best and do our best.

David Grosse, Founder, Behavor
David is the founder of Behavor, a behavioural risk practice focussing on the Financial Services industry and is the UK Managing Director of Swarm Dynamics, a company that utilises AI in conjunction with social network analysis, behavioural and data science. His work involves advising banks, regulators and industry bodies on the use of behavioural science in risk management, conduct, culture and compliance. During his 30 years working in banking his roles included running a Behavioural Risk team within HSBC Global Banking and Markets; the Global Head of Operational Risk, Asia Pacific Head of Internal Audit, and Hong Kong Chief Operating Officer at Barclays Capital; and the Asia Pacific Chief Operating Officer, and Head of Operational Risk at CLSA, an Asia Pacific based Financial Services firm. He is a chartered accountant, has an MSc in Behavioural Science from the LSE and is a member of the Global Association of Applied Behavioural Scientists.

Perrin Carey, CEO, CoSteer
Perrin founded CoSteer after an impressive corporate career culminating in several C-suite roles and is a highly experienced, professionally qualified Fellow of the International Compliance Association (FICA) with a Post-Grad in Corporate Governance. He is an appointed member of the Technical Committee of the ESG Exchange | Global Governance Group and is passionate about changing the narrative surrounding governance and its integration with organisational culture and performance.His research and CoSteer’s proprietary technology observe governance as a beautiful, interconnected, multi-factorial and complex system capable of transforming organisational and societal outcomes, such as securing high productivity inter-generational value and sustainable growth.

Sam De Silva, Partner and Global Co-Head of the Commercial Practice Group, CMS
Dr Sam De Silva is an award-winning Partner and Global Co-Head of the Commercial Practice Group at the leading international law firm, CMS. Renowned for his legal expertise in navigating complex and strategic technology projects, he provides strategic advice on all contractual matters and regularly advises on AI legal issues and risk management. His clients include FTSE 100 companies and cutting-edge scale-ups, representing both technology users and suppliers. Sam is a member of BSI’s ART/1 Committee and ICAEW’s Tech Faculty Board. Sam is also the Chair of the Legal Specialist Group at The Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) and is a former Trustee of the BCS. Recognised as both a Global Leader and Thought Leader in the Who’s Who of Information Technology 2025, the Who’s Who of Data Privacy and Protection 2025, and the Who’s Who of Data Security 2025.

Jared Goodrich, Director of Innovation, Moore Kingston Smith
As Director of Innovation at Moore Kingston Smith, a leading multi-disciplinary professional services firm, Jared champions the strategic integration of Artificial Intelligence and data analytics throughout the business. He leads the Digital Transformation Consulting and Audit Data Analytics functions, focusing on driving smarter, data-led decision-making and enhancing audit quality. Jared spearheaded the development of the firm's award-winning AI risk analytics platform, recognised as 'Digital Innovation of the Year' by the International Accounting Forum and Awards. He also led the creation of the firm's bespoke Generative AI platform designed to improve quality and effectiveness across all business areas

Malcolm Bacchus, Past ICAEW President, 2024-2025
Malcolm qualified as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant in 1981. He joined the ICAEW Council in 2005 and was elected President in 2024. He has worked in industry for the majority of his professional life, mainly as CFO of AIM-listed companies, across a wide range of sectors including property, childcare, mining, manufacturing, telecommunications, and construction. Amongst many other committee roles across ICAEW and its London District Society, he served as a member of the ICAEW Ethics Standards Committee from 2015 and was its Chair from 2018 to 2022. He is currently a member of HMRC's Administrative Burdens Advisory Board and of the Court of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.