Before joining Surrey Business School as a Lecturer in Corporate Governance and International Business, Dr Saori Sugeno spent twenty years working in academia and the public and private sectors in Japan, including a think tank of the Cabinet Office Government of Japan, major Japanese trading company Sumitomo Corporation and Daiwa Institute of Research - a think tank in Japanese second largest investment banking group - Daiwa Securities. She also has eight years of experience working in the City of London as an executive director and senior economist at Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd. Saori has taught Japanese economy courses at Chuo and Oberlin Universities in Tokyo for Japanese and international students. She is the author of two books on Russia published by Nikkei Publishing Inc and has published numerous articles in major Japanese media outlets. At Surrey Business School, Saori teaches International Corporate Governance for MSc students and she is also an Associate at Møller Institute, Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Saori Sugeno is fluent in Russian, Japanese and English and holds her PhD in economics from Chuo University in Japan.

Professor Jill Atkins is Professor of Accounting and Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University and is also a visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and at the University of Pisa. Her research focuses on corporate governance, responsible investment, stakeholder accountability, integrated reporting and extinction accounting. She edits the de Gruyter Corporate Governance Series. Jill chairs the British Accounting & Finance Association's Special Interest Group on Corporate Governance. She has co-edited The Business of Bees: An Integrated Approach to Bee Decline and Corporate Responsibility, published in 2016, which arises from a long-term project investigating the role of accounting and responsible investment in preserving biodiversity. She also co-edited, Around the World in 80 Species: Exploring the Business Case for Extinction Prevention, which was published by Routledge in 2019. Jill was contributory editor to Chief Value officer: Accountants Can Save the Planet, authored by Mervyn E. King. Her leading textbook, Corporate Governance and Accountability, is soon to be published in its 5th edition. Jill serves as a trustee and is on the board of directors of PAVO, the Powys Association of Voluntary Organisations.