José Luis Álvarez is Professor of Management Practice of Organisational Behaviour and leadership at INSEAD. He teaches in the MBA Program and mostly in executive education programmes and serves as academic director of the Advanced Management Programme. Professor Álvarez has been a Visiting Professor at the Harvard Business School and at Cambridge University. Professor Álvarez has authored seven books, on corporate governance, senior executive careers and the political facets of managerial work. His latest work, The Changing C-Suite, published by Oxford University Press, focuses on the executive functions and roles in executive committees. His consulting experience has focused mostly on issues of corporate governance, organisational design and change.