Meet the Team

Luke Fletcher

Luke Fletcher is a partner at the law firm Bates Wells, the first law firm in the UK to become a B Corp, and co-leads the firm’s Purpose & Impact practice.

In 2015, Luke co-authored the legal requirements for B Corps in the UK and was a member of the B Lab UK founding team. Luke has since advised a growing number of firms, from multinationals to start-ups, on the adoption of the B Corp legal requirements and their implications for firms and their stakeholders.

Luke also authored the draft of the Better Business Act which helped to launch the campaign and is a member of the Better Business Act steering group.

Jeff Twentyman

Jeff is Head of Sustainability at Slaughter and May. He leads the firm’s sustainability advisory team and responsible business initiatives. He has been a corporate lawyer for over 30 years. He has been past Chairman of UKSSD (now merged with UNGC) and of the Legal Sustainability Alliance. He is currently chairman of the Commonwealth Education Trust.

Nina Boeger

Nina is Professor of Law at the City Law School, University of London, where she heads the Research Group on Global Corporate Law. Her academic work researches variations in the design of corporate ownership, and its effects on the interaction between markets and their regulation. She specialises in the development of sustainable common ownership models in business organisations, including for social enterprises, employee-owned and cooperative firms. Her teaching includes courses on corporate governance, company law and corporate finance.

Margaret Casely-Hayford

Margaret Casely-Hayford was appointed Chair of Shakespeare’s Globe in January 2018, the same year in which she was appointed Chancellor of Coventry University. She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, a trustee of the Radcliffe Trust, an elected member of the Board of the Co-op Group and a Bencher of Gray’s Inn. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Honours list, for services to charity and for promoting diversity, in 2018.

Margaret was Director of Legal Services and Company Secretary for the John Lewis Partnership for nine years, and prior to this, was a partner at City law firm, Dentons. She champions better governance and democratic processes, supporting and advising organisations on governance and advising those, in particular women and BAME or LGTBQ+ people, who wish to embark upon board careers. Margaret has been named in the Powerlist of Britain’s most influential Black People.

Sir William Blair

Sir William (Bill) Blair is a former Judge of London’s Commercial Court whose expertise is in commercial and financial law and dispute resolution. He is considered a leading international expert in the law of banking and finance.

Professor of Financial Law and Ethics at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, he served as a High Court Judge in England and Wales for nearly ten years, and was Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court from 2016. He helped to establish the specialist Financial List, and the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts. He was the first President of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities until 2019.

In 2018, he was appointed Chair of the Bank of England’s Enforcement Decision Making Committee (EDMC). In 2018, he was appointed to the International Commercial Expert Committee of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China. He has served on missions for the World Bank, the IMF, and the Asian Development Bank.

His current research interests include monetary law, fintech, financial crime and financial inclusion. He has an interest in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and chairs the Law and Ethics in Finance Project, an informal group concerned with raising standards in the financial sector.

John Armour

John Armour is Professor of Law and Finance at Oxford University and a Fellow of the British Academy and the European Corporate Governance Institute. He studied at the University of Oxford and then at Yale Law School. He has held visiting posts at various institutions including the University of Chicago, Columbia Law School, the University of Frankfurt, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Private Law in Hamburg, and Sydney Law School. He is a member of the American Law Institute and an Academic Member of the Chancery Bar Association.

John Armour is Professor of Law and Finance at Oxford University and a Fellow of the British Academy and the European Corporate Governance Institute. He studied at the University of Oxford and then at Yale Law School. He has held visiting posts at various institutions including the University of Chicago, Columbia Law School, the University of Frankfurt, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Private Law in Hamburg, and Sydney Law School. He is a member of the American Law Institute and an Academic Member of the Chancery Bar Association.

Armour has published widely in the fields of company law, financial regulation, and corporate insolvency. His current research agenda focuses on the application of artificial intelligence to law and the role of pro-social norms in corporate governance.

Ida Levine

Ida Levine is a principal with Two Rivers Associates Limited consulting on public policy, strategy and governance. She serves on the Financial Markets Law Committee, and the Advisory Board of the UCLA Institute of Carbon Management.

Previously Ida was a Board Director and Senior Vice-President and Senior Counsel of Capital Group (CG) and served as its Director of Public Affairs in Europe. Before CG, Ida was European Counsel with JP Morgan Investment Management and a Partner at the international law firm Jones Day (London and New York). Ida was a founding Director of the UK Investor Forum.

Ida has a keen interest in the Arts – and is Vice-Chair of the Royal Academy of Dance Board of Trustees. She also is a Trustee of Dancer’s Career Development (DCD) and the Maria Bjornson Memorial Fund.