Guoli Chen is associate professor of strategy at INSEAD where he teaches strategy, value innovation, incentives design and corporate governance to MBAs, executives and PhD participants. Guoli received his PhD in strategic management from the Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on the influence of CEOs, top executives, and boards of directors on firms' strategic choices and organisational outcomes, as well as the interaction and dynamics in the top management team and CEO-board relationships.
Diane Chilangwa-Farmer’s work and research interests focus on addressing the challenges and benefits of living and working in a diverse society.
Diane specialises in helping organisations examine, rethink and explore meaningful perspectives on how best to achieve Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) and belonging in their workplace culture.
Diane is currently a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management’s Gender, Leadership and Inclusion (GLIC). In 2020 she assisted on a project commissioned by the CBI: Beyond the Business Case: Ethnicity on UK boards.
Iris is professor of corporate law and financial regulation at University College London. She previously taught at the School of Law, King's College London and the University of Leicester. Iris was a legislative draftsman and State Counsel at the Attorney-General's Chambers in Singapore prior to joining academia. She read law at the National University of Singapore and the University of Cambridge, and completed her doctorate at the University of Leicester.
Carly Chynoweth is Board Agenda's correspondent on board career and diversity issues, and is a regular writer for The Sunday Times on executive appointments. She also writes about business and management for The Times and a variety of magazines.
Estelle Clark is director of policy at the Chartered Quality Institute; a non-executive director of Riversimple, the hydrogen fuel cell eco-car company; and a member of the Governance Advisory Panel at the Institute of Directors.
Mark A. Clark, Ph.D., works with established and emerging business leaders to achieve high performance through teaching, research, and business consultancy. As associate professor and management department chair in the Kogod School of Business at American University, he teaches courses on leadership, organisational change, teams, organisational behaviour, and strategic human capital.
Marie-Louise completed a 30-year career in industry in 2008 to work as a professional non-executive across a variety of sectors. She holds/has held non-executive board roles at Forth Ports, Zotefoams, Ocean Rig, Geoffrey Osborne and Clarkson plc. Her background is in law and then finance and she has worked in a number of sectors, including telecommunications, engineering, manufacturing, power and oil and gas. Marie-Louise’s last executive role was as finance director of Venture Production.
Susie Clements is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles’ London office and managing partner of the Corporate Officers Practice in Europe & Africa. She is also a member of the CEO & Board of Directors Practice. Her search work focuses on group chief financial officers and succession hires. She has also spent three years as the global co-head of the Financial Officers Practice.
Coke is director of consulting for Reputation Institute based in London. He is a respected commentator on all aspects of reputation management, and has been featured in PR Week and other media outlets on topics ranging from the reputational impact of social media to the reputation of the British Royal Family.
David Cooke is a company and financial lawyer with ClientEarth. Prior to this David was a commercial lawyer with the international law firm Denton Wilde Sapte and more recently as a climate change and sustainability consultant, focusing on carbon accounting and reporting. David’s work focuses on company reporting and identifying opportunities for legal interventions to improve corporate transparency in relation to climate change.
Paul Cooper is a director at Vendigital, working across the industrial manufacturing and automotive sectors. He has over 10 years’ experience in industry, coupled with 21 years’ experience in management consulting.
Paul has been instrumental in defining, managing, and delivering high-profile OpEx, transformation, and performance improvement programmes internationally across a variety of industries. These include industrial sectors, FMCG, infrastructure, aerospace, life sciences and automotive.
Having previously held executive roles in industry with Carbolite (managing director), JCB Excavators, and Peugeot Motors (Faurecia Tier 1), Paul is able to operate effectively at both ‘granular shopfloor’ and board levels, blending hands-on activities with strategic thinking to deliver sustainable change and profitable growth for his clients.
Tim Copnell is the founding chairman of KPMG's UK Audit Committee Institute and has specialised in corporate governance since 1993. Tim is responsible for overseeing a programme of over 30 audit committee development seminars per annum and for developing updates, tools and guidance to assist directors in fulfilling their duties. He has extensive experience of facilitating board effectiveness reviews and in advising on corporate governance matters, including compliance with codes and regulation.
