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The Female FTSE Board Report 2016 62 Author Biographies
Ruth is a Senior Lecturer in Organizational Psychology at City University London. With global
expertise on women on corporate boards, her research areas include Women in Leadership; Board
composition; Role Models; and various aspects of Corporate Governance. Ruth is a member of the
Division of Occupational Psychology Board Effectiveness Group and has recently been invited to
join the NHS Women on Boards Steering Committee. In her previous role as the Deputy Director
of the International Centre for Women Leaders, Cranfield School of Management, Ruth was the
lead researcher of the annual Female FTSE Report from 2007. She has co-authored similar reports
in Hong Kong and India and has presented the reports’ findings to both academic and practitioner
audiences, globally. Ruth has been cited in broadsheet newspapers, radio and television channels,
and practitioner journals across the world. Her doctoral research considered the importance of
role models for female directors in investment banks, and how organizational demography may
affect their work identity formation and career aspirations. Ruth has spoken at many academic and
practitioner conferences, lectured on Doctoral, MBA and MSc courses, and has written a number
of reports, book chapters and journal articles. She has co-authored papers which have won Best
Paper awards at both British Academy of Management and American Academy of Management
Conferences. She is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development, a member
of the British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology and the British Academy
of Management. Prior to becoming an academic, Ruth was the Managing Director of a specialist
holiday company, which she sold to a larger tour operator. She then worked for a number of years as
a Business Psychology Consultant. Ruth has recently accepted an Associate Professorship at Exeter
Business School and will be moving there in October 2016.
Elena is a Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour and a researcher in the Centre for Research in Equality
and Diversity at Queen Mary University of London, School of Business and Management. Elena’s
expertise is in the field of gender and leadership, with an emphasis on diversity on corporate boards,
and the processes influencing women’s progression to leadership roles. Her previous research
projects examined the role of executive search consultants in increasing board diversity through
the board appointment process and the role of organizational politics in the leadership experiences
of men and women. She has been an author of the Female FTSE Report and the Davies Review
monitoring report for several years; these publications had extensive media coverage and wide
impact among practitioners and policy-makers. She was the lead author on the report examining
the adoption of the Voluntary Search Code by executive search firms, sponsored by the EHRC
and launched in 2012 by the 30% Club. Elena’s work has been published in several edited books,
practitioner reports and academic journals, including the British Journal of Management, the Human
Resource Management Journal, and Equality Diversity & Inclusion: An International Journal. Elena
is a regular speaker at international academic and practitioner conferences. In 2013, she acted as
the academic expert for Women on Boards UK on the European Parliament’s consultation held
by the Committee on Women’s rights and Gender Equality. She is a member of the Academy of
Management and the British Academy of Management and was a Fulbright scholar at Northwestern
University, USA. As a business psychologist, Elena has been involved in diversity management and
leadership development programmes. She draws on her research to advise organizations and policy
makers on ways of supporting women leaders.
Ruth Sealy
BScMSc PhDMCIPD
Senior Lecturer and Programme Co-Director,
Organizational Psychology, City University London
Visiting Fellow, Cranfield School of Management
Elena Doldor
BScMScMRes PhD
Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour, Centre for
Research in Equality and Diversity, Queen Mary
University of London
Visiting Fellow, Cranfield School of Management
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