Judging Panel, committee, and supporting organisations

Meet the Nigel Mason Award judging panel, award committee, and supporters.

Judging Panel

A Panel of world-leading experts will judge submissions annually. The Judging Panel comprises:

• Dr Aneesh Banerjee, Reader (Associate Professor), Head of the Technology and Innovation Group, Faculty of Management, Bayes Business School, City University of London
• Professor Joseph R Blasi, Director, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership & Profit Sharing, Rutgers University, USA
• Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, Chief Executive Officer, Stemette Futures and Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University
• Rose Marley, CEO Co-operatives UK
• Professor Jonathan Michie OBE, President, Kellogg College, University of Oxford; Director of The Oxford Centre for Mutual and Co-owned Business
• Graeme Nuttall OBE, International Ambassador, Employee Ownership Association; former UK Government independent adviser on Employee Ownership and author of the Nuttall Review of Employee Ownership

Award Committee

The Award is administered by the Nigel Mason Award Committee, with support from the UK employee ownership sector. The Nigel Mason Award Committee comprises:

• Professor Jonathan Michie OBE, President, Kellogg College and Member of Judging Panel
• Dr Aneesh Banerjee, Member of Judging Panel
• Ruth Sawtell, Nigel Mason family representative
• James de le Vingne, Chief Executive Officer, Employee Ownership Association
• Ann Tyler, Chair, Ownership at Work
• Gary Walker, Official Fellow and Finance Bursar, Kellogg College
• Graeme Nuttall OBE, Member of the Judging Panel and Trustee of the Nigel Mason Bequest
• Patrick Burns, Fellow, Ownership at Work, Trustee of the Nigel Mason Bequest

Supporters

The Nigel Mason Award is supported by the Employee Ownership Association, Ownership at Work, and share plan advisers RM2.