Lucy P. Marcus is a board chair and non-executive director who is challenging conventional wisdom inside and outside the board room and has emerged as a strong voice setting the agenda on future proofing boardrooms and companies around the world.

The CEO of Marcus Venture Consulting, she is Professor of Leadership and Governance at IE Business School, she writes an opinion column for Project Syndicate “The Real Business of Business” and an opinion column for the BBC, “Above Board with Lucy Marcus” and hosts a tv series, “In the Boardroom with Lucy Marcus” for Reuters.

Lucy serves as a non-executive board director and member of the Control, Risk and Corporate Governance Committee of global infrastructure company Atlantia SpA, and is also non-executive chair of the Mobius Life Sciences Fund, chair of the Mobius Life Sciences Fund Investment Panel, and is non-executive director and on the board audit committee of BioCity. She is the co-founder and chair of Leadership in Conflict which develops leaders in conflict and post-conflict zones and also applies those lessons to leading in some of the most challenging environments, sectors, and spaces in the world, from health care to boardrooms.

Lucy is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review, BusinessWeek, The Huffington Post, CSRWire, and other global publications, writing on boards, leadership, ethics and innovation.

She is a regular speaker on global economic trends and best practices for corporate governance leadership, private equity, venture capital, entrepreneurship, technology, and women in business.