LESLEY STEPHENSON

Publisher

Governance Publishing and Information Services Ltd

Lesley has specialised in corporate governance since publishing the Cadbury Report on behalf of the London Stock Exchange in 1992. Lesley has written for the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN), the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and the ICAEW NED Special Interest Group and is a regular speaker at workshops and conferences on governance and in particular the role of the non-executive director.

She spent 20 years as Publisher of the FT Board Director Programme (FT BDP), where she was responsible for ensuring that course content remained practical, relevant and up to date, and that the quality of speakers was of the highest standard. She was the driving force behind the development of the FT Non-Executive Director Diploma and continues to be closely associated with the programme. She also authored two of the FT BDP Professional Director Series e-learning courses: The Role of the Board and The Role of the Board Member.

She also publishes the leading monthly newsletter on corporate governance, Governance, which has covered governance developments and best practices worldwide for over a quarter of a century.