Kate Kenny is Professor in Business and Society at University of Galway, J.E Cairnes School of Business and Economics, Ireland. She has a B. Eng in Civil Engineering and a Phd from Cambridge University’s Judge Business School. Kate has held fellowships at the Edmond J. Safra Lab at Harvard University and Judge Business School. Kate has been researching whistleblowing and organizations for ten years, with projects funded by ESRC, British Academy, and Leverhulme Trust.

Marianna Fotaki is Professor of Business Ethics at University of Warwick Business School. She has a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science and was also an Edmond J. Safra Network Fellow (2014–2015) at Harvard University. Currently Marianna works on ESRC and British Academy/Leverhulme funded research on whistleblowing and corruption and conducts pilot projects on solidarity responses to refugee arrivals in Greece.

Bashir Alao is currently a PhD student at the J.E Cairnes School of Business and Economics, University of Galway. His research project is on whistleblowing systems, laws, ethics, and behavior and their impacts on corruption, fraud, and organization wrongdoing. He is working on a comparative study of Ireland and Nigeria. He is an experienced auditor and compliance expert and has authored and co-authored over ten research articles in the areas of corporate accountability, whistleblowing, auditing, and ethics.

Taymi holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy with over 10 years of experience in social research. She is an adjunct professor at the Department of Public Affairs of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences and the Specialization in Policy Design, and has been an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies on Inequalities at the University San Francisco de Quito. As an independent consultant, Taymi has specialized in multiple methods using both qualitative and quantitative techniques; her expertise centres on critical realism methodology and its methods including Process Tracing and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Taymi has conducted and participated in several diagnostic and evaluation research projects on anticorruption policies, human mobility, food security, and access to essential services for priority groups. 

Taymi works with Professor Kate Kenny on the BRIGHT project: Building Resilience through Integrity, Good Governance, and Honesty Training (EU Commission funding)

Johanna Wiisak was a senior researcher at Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku Finland and started her post doc research project on whistleblowing in healthcare on 2nd December 2024 at J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, University of Galway, Ireland. The project is funded by SyMeCo, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc fellowship programme at Lero – the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. Johanna has been researching whistleblowing in healthcare from a health professional ethics perspective for over ten years. She has developed a conceptual model of reasoning for whistleblowing, among other things. She has also worked as a researcher on two international and one national research project. One project, involving 14 European countries, focused on the decision-making and roles of nurse leaders at political, strategic and tactical levels during the COVID-19 pandemic, and another project involving six European countries investigated the moral competence of nurses. A national research project aimed to promote the careers of early career nurses by strengthening well-being at work in care settings for older people.

Johanna works with Professor Kate Kenny on the SyMeCo, MSCA-LERO funded project, Towards an ethically sustainable and resilient healthcare with systems thinking (EU Horizon Europe funding)

Wim Vandekerckhove is a Reader in Business Ethics at the University of Greenwich. He has provided expertise on whistleblowing to various organisations, including Transparency International, Public Concern at Work, the Whistleblower Advice Centre in the Netherlands, the UK Department of Health, the Council of Europe, and the British Standards Institute.

Didem Derya Özdemir Kaya is a research fellow and associate lecturer at the OHRM division of Warwick Business School. She completed her PhD at the same institution in October 2019. Her research interests are affective labour and post-Fordist work. She draws on psychosocial, feminist and Marxist theories in her research. She has held research posts in teams investigating whistleblowing and domestic abuse.

Meghan Van Portfliet is a Lecturer in Management at Cork University Business School and an Associate Member of the Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway. Her research is focused on how whistleblowers can successfully come through their journey, looking at the support of advocacy organizations and how these can shape the journey. She has published her work in journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics and Organization.

Muhammad Irfan is an Employee Engagement & Voice Advisor for the Ministry of Health, B.C. Public Service, Canada. He has been involved in research and consultancy projects focusing on whistleblowing, employee voice, work culture, and effective leadership. He holds a PhD in Management from the University of Galway. Muhammad has experience across various industries, including higher education, tech startups, oil and gas, manufacturing, and the public sector.

Iain Munro is Professor of Leadership and Organization at Newcastle Business School. He has previously worked at the universities of Warwick (1994-2000), St Andrews (2000-2009), and Innsbruck (2009-2013). He has research interests in whistleblowing and human rights, and more broadly in ethics and power in organizations.