| Biography | Philippa Foster Back CBE is the Director of the Institute for Business Ethics. She studied geography at University College London and began her career at Citibank NA before joining Bowater in their Corporate Treasury Department in 1979, leaving in 1988 as Group Treasurer. She was Group Finance Director at DG Gardner Group, a training organisation, prior to joining Thorn EMI in 1993 as Group Treasurer until 2000. In 2001, she was appointed Director of the Institute of Business Ethics.
In connection with her IBE role, she served on the Woolf Committee 2007/8 looking at ethical business practice in BAE Systems plc. She speaks widely on business ethics issues, encouraging high standards of business behaviour based on ethical values. She sits on the Board/Advisory Board of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI), and RAND Europe.
She is a Visiting Fellow of the Said Business School at Oxford University and Honorary Vice President of Employee Ownership Association. She chairs the Antarctic Place Names Committee and is former chairman of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust. Since February 2016, she has chaired the South Georgia Heritage Trust. |