Peter S Heslam is Director of Faith in Business. This is a part-time post (two days per week). Peter's research, writing and speaking is wide ranging within the general field of whole-life Christianity. Some of it is focused on the interface of business, faith and development. Although largely overlooked, he believes greater understanding of this interface will help deliver practical change that increases human and environmental well-being. He also has a research focus on the social entrepreneur, statesman and theologian Abraham Kuyper and is inspired by Kuyper’s vision for whole-life discipleship.

Peter has a broad academic background that includes various positions at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Before them, he was on the faculty of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC), the Cambridge Theological Federation, and Ridley Hall (where he is now an Associate). In his work, which includes being a doctoral supervisor at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, a Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, and a Fellow at the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology, he seeks to increase knowledge and understanding of whole-life mission and faith-based cultural engagement. 

In directing an international research project on Christian entrepreneurs, Peter has interviewed scores of business leaders in many different countries. He previously directed Transforming Business (a cross-disciplinary project based at Cambridge's Faculty of Divinity, with close ties to Cambridge's Judge Business School) and the Oxford and Cambridge Symposium on Enterprise, Ethics and Development (SEED), and has held various visiting professorships at universities and business schools around the world.

Peter writes an article for every edition of Faith in Business Quarterly and is the editor of God on Monday. This series of short weekly reflections, produced in partnership with the Church of England, are designed to help people live out their faith in ordinary everyday life, including in their work (sign up here). He is involved in an honorary capacity in various arts projects and in parish work as an ordained minister in the Church of England. 

Gareth is a senior leader with over 20 years of experience driving robust governance, operational excellence, and organisational transformation across the technology, education, and public safety sectors. 

In addition to his work with Faith in Business, he serves as a trustee of Hope Begins, a charity supporting children in Kenya, and is now embarking on a new chapter with his business, Cambridge Fractional. 

Karim has spent his career in the creative and built environment industries. He started out in civil engineering as a qualified architectural technician, working on projects like the iconic Shard building in London. Now leading his luxury fashion brand and film production company, IAM Studios, he designs clothing with the intent of making modest luxury apparel popular and produces films and video content for clients in related sectors. Karim is passionate about connecting people and businesses from all walks of life with the aim of fostering a revival of Christian-inspired business and culture in the UK and abroad. 

Esther Ngéthe is an experienced accountant who has spent a large part of her professional life working with SMEs. She leverages her academic background in finance to help companies improve their profitability by better managing the financial, operational and investing activities of the company.
 
Esther has also served with a young adults Christian organization popularly known as K-Krew BS. Its main aim is to create a platform for young people to study the bible together and to grow deeper in their faith. Occasionally, she blogs about some of the lessons she is learning.
 
Esther's desire for wholesome Christian living where Christian values are not only practiced in church but also in the market place, led to her discovery of Faith in Business. As it helped her find practical ways to put her beliefs to work, she has kept coming back to Faith in Business ever since. Now she is enthralled that she gets to serve on its volunteer team of enthusiastic, grounded and talented business people.

Dawn is Managing Director of Danetree Associates and Chief Integrity Officer for Floodlight Business Limited. She studied law at Kingston University and at The College of Law, qualifying as a solicitor in 2000 and a notary public in 1999.

After ten years in industry, and with a large regional UK law firm as commercial partner, she founded Danetree in 2010. Dawn’s work in directing Danetree is focused on corporate advice and project management, notably for transactions and commercial development, in the UK and abroad.

Floodlight Business is focused on mentoring (school seniors and college students, through to workplace support and boardroom conscience) and training. Its aim is to enable business integrity through the behaviours, choices, communications and actions of leaders (or future / apprentice leaders) and their management teams.

Dawn is a member of the Institute of Collaborative Working and the Institute of Business Ethics. She lives in Surrey with her husband and their cocker spaniel. Favourite things - time with family, friends, and in the great outdoors. Favourite short break - boating on the Norfolk Broads.

Andrew is an IT entrepreneur and has founded a number of businesses in the IT and telecoms sector. Although he has exited most of these in the last few years, Andrew is still involved with the National Trade Association and in an industry delivery group as a non-executive director.

On founding his first company, Bridge Partners, in 2001 Andrew knew that he needed to reconcile his faith and work. Soon after that he came across Faith in Business and attended his first conference in 2004 on Values in Business. This has led to a near 20 year association with Faith in Business. It also led to him helping to run the Chaplaincy to People at Work in Cambridgeshire, and then involvement with the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity.

Andrew is Church Warden of St John’s Church in Waterbeach and is married to Janet, an ordained minister in the Church of England. They have an enthusiastic Staffordshire bull terrier named Beulah, and they enjoy gardening and cricket. 

Stephen Doel is a senior operations leader, COO and Executive Board Director with more than 25 years experience in the semiconductor and life sciences industries. 

He is used to leading diverse, multi-site teams across a wide range of organisations, and has spun out two not-for-profit companies in open source and in education. He has also acquired and integrated several businesses to secure their growth.

After attending a couple of Faith in Business conferences and finding many business people who shared his values, he was delighted to become part of the volunteer team and to play his part in helping this vital ministry to continue being a source of blessing to business leaders and their organizations around the world. 

As Co-founder and CEO of Ethical Apparel Africa, Keren Pybus brings over 25 years of experience in sourcing, merchandising, and retail operations. Her passion for ethical manufacturing drove her to start Ethical Apparel Africa (EAA). It operates with a model that proves that living wages and worker empowerment are not mutually exclusive with cost-competitive product and profit. Today EAA manufactures mass market apparel from its factories in Ghana, mainly for export to the USA.

Keren has worked all over the world. This has included spending three years in Bangladesh to set up and run the George sourcing office. She has worked both with large retailers such as Walmart UK/South Africa and with small-scale artisan suppliers. She is based in London with her husband and daughter. 

Keren has been involved in Faith in Business since 2016 when she attended its annual conference in Cambridge. Faith in Business has inspired Keren to develop a theological understanding of work, combined with learning from the shared experiences of others in the Faith in Business network. This has significantly helped her in her role as CEO of Ethical Apparel Africa, especially in working in a cross-cultural environment. She is an active part of the Faith in Business prayer ministry team.

Dr Kimberly (Kim) Sawers is Seattle Pacific University’s vice president for business and finance where she leads the university’s finance and administrative units including budget planning, controller’s office, human resources, computer and information systems, safety and security, facility management, and university services. She is also the vice chair of the Seattle Pacific Foundation (endowment and trust management).
 
Kim has served in several roles at Seattle Pacific University over the years: professor of accounting in the School of Business, Government, and Economics (2006–22), associate dean for undergraduate studies (2016-22), university controller (1985–95), and director of finance (1995–97). Her research has focused on decision-making within a managerial accounting context, drawing on theories from accounting, economics, psychology, and organizational behaviour.
 
Kim's publications include articles published in Contemporary Accounting Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Issues in Accounting Education, and Faith in Business Quarterly.
 
Kim’s involvement with Faith in Business over the years has led her to think deeply about integrating her faith with her work at Seattle Pacific University. So she’s excited to be a Trustee of Faith in Business and to see it continuing to provide the academic and practical resources that serve Christians in business around the world.

Richard Higginson was Director of Faith in Business at Ridley Hall from its inception in 1989 until his retirement in May 2018. He combined this role with those of Lecturer in Christian Ethics, and Director of Studies.

He is a founder-editor of the journal Faith in Business Quarterly, and the author of several books, including Called to Account, Transforming Leadership, Questions of Business Life, Faith, Hope & the Global Economy, and (with Kina Robertshaw) A Voice to be Heard.

He is an expert on Christianity, capitalism and culture, business ethics, and a theology of work. If you are interested in publishing an article in Faith in Business Quarterly, you can contact Richard for details and advice via the Contact Us page of this website..