Alex Edmans is professor of finance at London Business School and a member of The Purposeful Company Steering Group.
Alex’s research interests are in corporate finance (corporate governance, executive compensation, investment/growth/innovation, and mergers and acquisitions), behavioural finance, corporate social responsibility, and practical investment strategies.
Alex has published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Economic Literature. He is managing editor of the Review of Finance.
Turid Elisabeth Solvang, is president of ecoDa and co-founder and former managing director of the Norwegian Institute of Directors, established in 2009. (www.styreinstitutt.no).
Ms Solvang has been a board member of ecoDa (www.ecoda.org) since 2011, and was also member of the nomination and evaluation committee, the policy committee, and chairing ecoDa’s working group on board selection processes until November 3 2015.
Turid took her M.Sc. in general business at BI Norwegian Business School in 1989. She also holds a master program in scenario planning. Turid has extensive experience in corporate communications, as well as many years experience in board rooms as Non-Executive Director in both corporate boards (mainly financial and service sector) and membership associations.
From 2004 onwards, she has focused on board related products and services, including recruiting for corporate boards, and as co-owner and managing director of Infovidi AS, a project-development company based in Oslo, Norway. She was formerly responsible for corporate communication at Burson-Marsteller (the leading global public relations and public affairs firm) in Oslo, and was head of marketing at Fearnley Data, Oslo.
Richard Emerton is managing partner, board and CEO services, EMEA at Korn Ferry. His clients range from Fortune 100 and FTSE 100 companies, to major global consulting and private equity firms. Prior to joining the firm, Richard spent eight years with another global executive search firm, where he held various leadership positions, including head of the board and CEO practice for the UK and head of the EMEA leadership consulting practice.
Kevin joined the University of York in September 2014. Prior to that he was senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield and held visiting professorships at the University of Toronto and Carleton University, Canada. Kevin has published widely on business and public policy, corporate power, corporate welfare and economic crisis, and welfare states.
Emily Farnworth is director of the Centre for Climate Engagement at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. She has over 25 years of experience working with businesses, governments and non-profit organisations to support the transition to a low-carbon economy. Previously the head of climate initiatives at the World Economic Forum, Emily was involved in setting up the Climate Governance Initiative (now hosted at the Centre for Climate Engagement), the Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders, the Mission Possible Partnership and the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance. She has worked in environmental consultancy firms, including ERM and URS, non-profit organisation The Climate Group and has run her own social enterprise, focused on climate action research and campaigning. She is chair of the RE100 Advisory Committee, a member of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition Advisory Group, and a member of the University of Cambridge Sustainability Committee.
Liz Fealy serves as the Global People Advisory Services deputy leader at EY, where she partners with teams to synthesize EY’s business and people solutions to solve clients’ pressing organisation and workforce issues.
She is a strategic adviser to clients on organisation and people implications in transactions, as well as large-scale transformations. Over her career, Liz has collaborated with more than 25 of the Fortune 100 companies on their corporate transactions and transformations. Liz is an employment and labour attorney by background and holds a JD (Juris Doctor) degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell.
Richard Fenning is the CEO of Control Risks. Richard joined Control Risks in 1993 and was head of the firm’s New York office from 1997–2000. He was appointed COO in 2001 and CEO in 2005. Richard advises many of the firm’s clients on a wide range of risk management issues. In addition, he is a frequent speaker on geo-political risk and its impact on business. Richard has an honours degree in Modern History from the University of Bristol, UK, and in 2004 attended the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD business school in France.
Ciarán Fenton is a leadership consultant, board evaluator and adviser to CXOs, NEDs and lawyers-as-leaders.
He facilitates high EQ/ESG based decision-making by working with the interdependence between the personal and organisational purpose, strategy and behaviour (PSB) of each client board member and their boards.
Since 2002 he has worked with individuals and organisations—listed, private, third, public—using his model, The Fenton Model, which is an approach to self-management he has developed over many years of practice that provides senior leaders with the thinking and tools to achieve a small change in their behaviour and that of each member of their senior leadership team by negotiating relationship contracts with them.
During his early career he held senior business leadership roles at Hachette, ITN, Pearson and The Guardian Media Group, in which he was involved in change programmes.
Ciarán is a mentor at London Business School, a faculty member on Paul Gilbert’s LBCambridge2 in-house counsel programme, and a regular speaker, writer and pamphleteer on board behaviour and performance issues.
Nuno Fernandes is professor of finance at IESE Business School. He is also the chairman of the board of auditors of the Portuguese Central Bank (Banco de Portugal), non-executive (member of audit committee) at the European Investment Bank, and a research associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute.
Guilherme Filardi is a partner at the law firm De Luca, Derenusson, Schuttoff e Azevedo Sociedade de Advogados (DDSA) in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is a specialist in corporate and international law and is the author of several articles on corporate governance and business in Brazil.
Alexander is a partner at Kekst CNC. He has more than 20 years of international consulting experience and joined Kekst CNC in 2020. Most recently, he headed the digital agency Clarity as market lead DACH and successfully integrated it into the technology consultancy Akima. Fink was also a senior adviser at Roland Berger Executive Communications.
Prior to this, he was CEO Germany of the international communications firm Burson-Marsteller and held leading functions at communications consultancies Edelman and KetchumPleon in Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Alexander has extensive experience in the areas of crisis communications, cyber security, as well as in the fast-growing areas of change management and in supporting companies through the digital transformation.
Alexander studied history and journalism and is co-author of the book Professional Crisis Communications (Springer Gabler 2019).
