Corporate governance is defined, described or delineated in diverse ways, depending on the writer's purpose. Writers focused on a disciplinary interest or context often adopt narrow definitions that appear purpose-specific. Writers concerned with regulatory policy in relation to corporate governance practices often use broader structural descriptions. A broad (meta) definition that encompasses many adopted definitions is "Corporate governance” describes the processes, structures, and mechanisms that influence the control and direction of corporations."
Colin Peter Mayer is the Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He was the Peter Moores Dean of the Saïd Business School between 2006 and 2011. He is a fellow of the British Academy, a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He is a professorial fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, an honorary fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He is an ordinary member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal and was a member of the UK government Natural Capital Committee. Over the last decade he has made the case against narrow shareholder value maximization by business firms and instead promoted the broader view of business purpose to promote economic and social well-being.
Javier Suárez Bernaldo de Quirós is a Spanish economist who is known for his specialization in financial crises.
Alexander Ljungqvist is a Swedish economist, educator, scholar, writer, and speaker. He is a professor of finance at the Stockholm School of Economics, where he holds the Stefan Persson Family Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance. His areas of expertise include corporate finance, investment banking, initial public offerings, entrepreneurial finance, private equity, venture capital, corporate governance, and asset pricing. Professor Ljungqvist teaches MBA and executive courses in private equity and venture capital and a PhD course in corporate finance.
Robert Ian (Bob) Tricker is an expert in corporate governance who wrote the first book to use the title corporate governance in 1984, based on his research at Nuffield College, Oxford. He was also the founder-editor of the research journal Corporate Governance - an international review (1993).
Kevin James Murphy is a professor at the University of Southern California. Since 2006, Murphy has held the Kenneth L. Trefftzs Chair in Finance at the USC Marshall School of Business. He is also a Professor of Law at the USC Gould School of Law and Professor of Economics at USC's College of Letters, Arts & Science.
Wolfgang Mayrhofer is an Austrian competitive sailor and Olympic silver medalist as well as professor of management at WU in Vienna., Austria.
David Kershaw is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, specialising in company law. As well as the author of a leading company law textbook, Kershaw's expertise focuses on accounting principles for companies, for which his work on post-Enron regulation received the Modern Law Review Wedderburn Prize, directors' duties, takeovers and workplace participation.
David Hillier is Associate Principal at the University of Strathclyde and Executive Dean of the Strathclyde Business School, having previously held the Ziff Chair in Financial Markets at Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds. He has taught financial and accounting topics in a number of academic institutions in Greece, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Spain, Tanzania, Thailand and others. Professor David Hillier is an author of several books and other publications in the field of finance, corporate governance and accounting, including "Fundamentals of Corporate Finance: European Edition".
Chris Brooks is Professor of Finance in the School of Accounting and Finance at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
Lucrezia Reichlin is an Italian economist who has been a professor at London Business School since 2008.
Julian Birkinshaw is a British academic. He is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School, where he is the Academic Director of the Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is the author of four books on management.
Greg N. Gregoriou (1956–2018) was a professor of finance and a native of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Yishay Yafeh is an Economist and a Professor of Finance at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Business Administration in Israel. Between 2010–2012 he was the vice- dean of the Hebrew University School of Business Administration and the Dean of the School between 2012–2016.
Marina Brogi is an Italian economist, Full Professor of Banking and Capital Markets at Sapienza University of Rome, author of numerous publications on corporate governance, banking and capital markets.
Francesca Cornelli is an economist who currently serves as Dean for Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
Mohammad Kabir Hassan is a Bangladeshi-American economist who serves as Professor of Finance at University of New Orleans. He has been providing consultancy to International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Transparency International Bangladesh, African Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank and Government of Turkey.
Justin Paul is a professor of business administration at the University of Puerto Rico with a 3 year Visiting Professor assignment with Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK and editor-in chief of the International Journal of Consumer Studies. Previously, Paul served as a faculty member with Rollins College, the University of Washington and Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan.
Rüdiger Fahlenbrach is a German economist specialised in finance. He is a professor of finance at EPFL and holds the Swiss Finance Institute Senior Research Chair.
Douglas J. Cumming is a Canadian financial economist. He is the DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and the Chair of the Finance Department at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University and a Visiting Professor at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. Cumming specializes in financial market misconduct, financial technology (FinTech), entrepreneurial finance, mutual funds, hedge funds, entrepreneurship, international business, and law. In 2022, Cumming was listed as one of the top-92 cited scholars in the world in the area of business and economics.
