Cranfield Female FTSE Board Report 2016

Author Biographies

The Female FTSE Board Report 2016

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Ruth Sealy BScMSc PhDMCIPD Senior Lecturer and Programme Co-Director, Organizational Psychology, City University London Visiting Fellow, Cranfield School of Management Ruth.Sealy.1@city.ac.uk

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 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 e.r.doldor@qmul.ac.uk

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.