Philippa Foster Back OBE, is the Director of the Institute of Business Ethics, appointed in 2001.

She began her career at Citibank NA before joining Bowater in their Corporate Treasury Department in 1979, leaving in 1988 as Group Treasurer.  She was Group Finance Director at DG Gardner Group, a training organisation, prior to joining Thorn EMI in 1993 as Group Treasurer until 2000.

She has a number of external appointments, including at the Institute of Directors; University College London; Barrier Biotech Ltd and is Chairman of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust. In 2008 was a member of the Woolf Committee looking at business practices at BAE.

In 2006 she was awarded the OBE for services to the Ministry of Defence where she was formerly a NED and Chair of the Defence Audit Committee. She won the M&S/BITC Sieff Award in 2008.