1 | Hugh Mitchell | Chief HR and corporate officer | Royal Dutch Shell |
2 | Neil Morrison | Group HR director, UK and International Companies | Penguin Random House |
3 | Valerie Hughes D’Aeth | Director of HR | BBC |
4 | Louise Smalley | Group HR director | Whitbread |
5 | Sandy Begbie | Group operations officer | Standard Life |
6 | Natalie Bickford | HR director Europe | Sodexo |
7 | Jabbar Sardar | HR director, television | BBC |
8 | Claire Thomas | Senior VP HR | GlaxoSmithKline |
9 | Eugenio Pirri | VP people and organisational development | The Dorchester Collection |
10 | Andrew Dodman | Director of HR | University of Sheffield |
11 | Robert Potter | Group HR director | Hays |
12 | Therese Procter | People director | Tesco Bank |
13 | Tanith Dodge | HR director | Marks and Spencer |
14 | Stephen Dando | Operating partner | Bain Capital |
15 | Rosemary McGinness | Group HR director | William Grant & Sons |
16 | Tracy Clarke | Director of compliance, people and communications | Standard Chartered Bank |
17 | Toby Peyton-Jones | Director of HR | Siemens UK & North West Europe |
18 | Andrew Newall | Group HR director | Imperial Tobacco |
19 | Ann Pickering | HR director | Telefónica UK |
20 | Althea Loderick | Chief operating officer | London Borough of Waltham Forest |
21 | Deborah Baker | Director for people | BskyB |
22 | Andrew McEachern | Global director of people and development | Norton Rose Fulbright |
23 | Mike Westcott | Group HR director | National Grid |
24 | Jennifer Duvalier | Executive vice president, people | Arm Holdings |
Joint 25 | Geoff Tranfield | Group HR director | IMI |
Joint 25 | Celia Baxter | Director of group HR | Bunzl |
26 | Helen Giles | Executive director of HR | St Mungo’s Broadway and MD Real People |
Joint 27 | Tim Jones | Group head of HR | London Stock Exchange |
Joint 27 | Gillian Quinton | Managing director (Business Enterprise and Shared Services) | Buckinghamshire County Council |
Joint 27 | Julie Welch | HR director | Wincanton |
Joint 27 | Jan Woods | Director | Lion Capital |
28 | Kate Guthrie | HR director, culture, capability and engagement | Lloyds Banking Group |
29 | Matt Stripe | Global head of human resources | Nestlé Waters |
30 | Derrick Crowley | Group HR director | News UK |
1 | Cary Cooper | 50th Anniversary professor of organizational psychology & health | Manchester Business School, University of Manchester |
2 | Rob Briner | Professor of organisational psychology | School of Management, University of Bath |
3 | Adrian Furnham | Professor of psychology | University College London |
4 | Steve Peters | Undergraduate dean of Sheffield Medical School and CEO of Chimp Management | |
5 | Veronica Hope-Hailey | Dean and head of school | University of Bath |
6 | Herminia Ibarra | Cora Chaired professor of leadership and learning and professor of organisational behaviour | INSEAD |
7 | Jeffrey Pfeffer | Thomas D Dee II professor of organizational behavior | Stanford Business School |
8 | Stephen Bungay | Director | Ashridge Strategic Management Centre |
9 | Wendy Hirsh | Independent researcher, and principal associate | Institute for Employment Studies |
10 | Patrick Wright | Thomas C Vandiver Bicentennial Chair | Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina |
11 | Edward Lawler | Director | Center for Effective Organisations and distinguished professor of business, University of Southern California |
12 | Marcus Buckingham | Author and founder | Marcus Buckingham Company |
13 | Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge | Founder | Quality & Equality |
14 | Stephen Bevan | Director | Centre for Workforce Effectiveness, The Work Foundation |
15 | Andrew Campbell | Director | Ashridge Strategic Management Centre |
16 | Michael West | Professor of organisational psychology | Lancaster University Management School, and Senior Fellow The King’s Fund |
17 | Josh Bersin | Principal and Founder | Bersin by Deloitte |
18 | Amy Edmondson | Novartis professor of leadership and management | Harvard Business School |
19 | Paul Kearns | Chair | The Maturity Institute |
20 | Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | Professor of business psychology | University College London and Columbia University |
21 | Marshall Goldsmith | Adjunct professor of business administration | Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth |
22 | David Collings | Professor of HR management | Dublin City University |
23 | Adam Grant | Professor of management | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania |
24 | Shlomo Ben-Hur | Professor of leadership and organizational behavior | IMD |
25 | Denise Rousseau | University Professor, HJ Heinz II professor of organizational behavior and public policy | Carnegie Mellon University, and Heinz College and Tepper School of Business |
26 | Stewart Friedman | Practice professor of management, The Wharton School of Business | University of Pennsylvania |
27 | Vlatka Hlupic | Professor of business and management | Westminster Business School |
28 | Sylvia Ann Hewlett | Founder and CEO | Center for Talent Innovation |
29 | Steven D'Souza | Associate professor | IE Business School |
30 | Liz Mellon | Executive director and chair of the editorial board of Dialogue | Authentic Leadership and Duke Corporate Education |
HR Most Influential 2015 Results At A Glance
HR Most Influential 2015 Practitioners
HR Most Influential 2015 Ten of the decade: Practitioners
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HR Most Influential 2015 Ten of the decade: Thinkers