Profile: Holly J Gregory

Corporate Governance

Biography: Corporate Governance

Holly J Gregory counsels directors, trustees and senior managers of public and private, for-profit and not-for-profit, corporations on a range of governance issues, including director and trustee responsibilities, conflicts of interest, board and committee structure, audit committee investigations, board audits and self-evaluation processes, institutional investor initiatives, international governance best practice, and compliance with legislative, regulatory and listing rule requirements.

In the public policy arena, Ms Gregory has worked on various corporate governance projects for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Commission, the World Bank and the Securities and Exchange Commission. She has authored and co-authored a number of publications on corporate governance.

In addition to her legal practice and policy efforts, Ms Gregory is a faculty member for the National Association of Corporate Directors' education programmes. She has also lectured on corporate governance topics at events sponsored by the OECD, the World Bank, the SEC, the US State Department (in Japan and Turkey), the Conference Board, the American Corporate Counsel Association, the American Society of Corporate Governance Professionals, the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys, Institutional Shareholder Services and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, among others. She has helped organise corporate governance programmes for the OECD, the World Bank, the Global Corporate Governance Forum, Yale's International Institute for Corporate Governance, Transparency International, the SEC, and Columbia University School of Law's Institutional Investor Project. She has served as co-chair of the subcommittee on international developments of the corporate governance committee of the business law section of the American Bar Association, and has also served as a member of both the nominating and bylaw committees of the International Corporate Governance Network.

Ms Gregory was named by her peers to the first International Who's Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers in 2002 and in the subsequent 2004 and 2006 editions, and in 2005, was named in a Legal Media Group survey of the world's top corporate governance lawyers, ranking in the top-10 by nominations.

Ms Gregory received her JD, summa cum laude, from New York Law School in 1986, where she was executive editor of the New York Law School Law Review. Upon graduation, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Roger J Miner, United States Court of Appeals for the second circuit. She serves on the board of the International Senior Lawyers Project.