Individual Accountability in the Financial Services Sector

Dr. Wieke Scholten

OWNER OF BR INSIGHTS, social & organisational psychologist

Wieke Scholten is a social & organisational psychologist with over 20 years of experience in observing, analysing and changing human behaviour in organisations.

The last 14 years she has specialised in behavioural risk management within financial services. Together with a team of organisational psychologists and statisticians Wieke supports organisations globally in managing counterproductive work behaviour and applying organisational psychology in practice to obtain better outcomes.

Her experience is across different regions such as Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, South America and the APAC region. Wieke holds a PhD in social psychology on team climates that can elicit unethical behaviour, obtained at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Wieke has founded and led several expertise teams in the field of behavioural risk management.

She was Head of Behavioural Risk at NatWest Group Internal Audit (2016-2019), where she has set up a strategy, methodology and team operating from out of London to identify behavioural risk globally. She was Senior Supervisor of Behaviour & Culture at the Dutch Central Bank, DNB (2011-2016) where she was one of the first two psychologists hired by DNB to shape the supervision of behaviour and culture.

Additionally, she helped organisations globally to build behavioural risk capability in house, with her consultancy team as a Lead Partner Behavioural Risk at &samhoud consultancy (2019-2023). Next to her role at BR Insights, she is Managing Director Europe for Swarm Dynamics that offers technology solutions to uncover and measure culture, using AI and behavioural science.

She lectures at the Institute of Banking and Institute of Directors Ireland on topics such as ethical leadership and psychology in the boardroom. Wieke is author of the book ‘Banking on team ethics’ (2018) and several publications, including in the Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance and the Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions

Dr Joe McGrath

Lecturer/Assistant Professor School of Law

Joe is an Irish Research Council Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, an Assistant Professor of Law at the Sutherland School of Law, and the Vice Principal for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion of the College of Social Sciences and Law. Joe completed his doctoral thesis on corporate and financial regulation at University College Cork in 2011. He also graduated with a first class honours Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from University College Cork in 2007 and subsequently completed a post-graduate teaching qualification in higher education at NUI Galway. 

Prior to joining the Sutherland School of Law at University College Dublin in 2014, he lectured at the National University of Ireland, Galway for three years. He has also held visiting fellowships at Harvard Law School, the University of California, Berkeley, and New York University. His first book, 'Corporate and White Collar Crime in Ireland: A New Architecture of Regulatory Enforcement', was published by Manchester University Press. He also edited and co-authored 'White Collar Crime in Ireland: Law and Policy', published by Clarus Press. His third book, co-authored, "New Accountability in Financial Services: Changing Individual Behaviour and Culture", was published by Palgrave. He has also published in the leading peer reviewed journals in Ireland, Europe, and the USA. These include: Crime, Law and Social Change (twice); the Dublin University Law Journal; the European Journal of Criminology; the Irish Jurist (three times); the Irish Supreme Court Review; the Journal of Corporate Law Studies; Justice Quarterly; the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology; Punishment and Society; Regulation & Governance; the Seattle University Law Review; and the University of Chicago Law Review (Online), among others. Joe currently teaches banking law, corporate governance, white-collar crime, company law, and comparative corporate governance and financial regulation, across a variety of programmes at University College Dublin. He also coordinates the Advanced Diploma in Corporate, White-Collar and Regulatory Crime at the Honorable Society of King's Inns and is the module coordinator of Decision Making, Group Dynamics and Behaviour at the Institute of Banking in Ireland. Joe has served as an external examiner for the University of Limerick, Middlesex University London, and the Institutes of Technology at Athlone and Carlow. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Law in 2019 and the Inaugural Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.