Steen Thomsen, Professor, Ph.D. Director of the Center for Corporate Governance Department of International Economics and Management Copenhagen Business School, Denmark;

Steven C. Currall, Dean and Professor of Management, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis, the USA;

Al Bhimani, Professor of Management Accounting, Head of Department of Accounting, London School of Economics, UK;

Philip Stiles, Professor, Co-Director of the Centre for International Human Resource Management, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK;

Makoto Kasuya, Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan;

Donato Masciandaro, Professor of Economics, Chair in Economics of Financial Regulation, Director, Paolo Baffi Centre on Central Banking and Financial Regulation, Bocconi University, Italy;

Jouko Vilmunen, Ph.D., Head of Research, Research Unit, Bank of Finland, Finland;

Carl-Christian Freidank, Professor, University of Hamburg, Germany;

Luc Renneboog, Professor of Corporate Finance, Tilburg University, the Netherlands;

Markus Stiglbauer, Professor in Corporate Governance, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Germany;

Caspar Rose, Professor, Department of International Economics and Management, Center for Corporate Governance, Denmark;

Miia Parnaudeau, Professor, Tours School of Business and Management, France;

André Luiz Carvalhal-da-Silva, Professor of Finance, Coppead Graduate School of Business, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;

Stijn Claessens, Ph.D., IMF, the USA;

Tracie Woidtke, Associate Professor and David E. Sharp/Home Federal Bank Professor of Banking and Finance, Finance Ph.D. Program Director and Research Fellow, Corporate Governance Center, The University of Tennessee, the USA;

John Armour, Lovells Professor of Law and Finance, Faculty of Law, University of

Petri Sahlström, Professor of Accounting, Dean, Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, Finland;

Ruth Alas, Professor, Vice-Rector, Estonian Business School, Estonia;

Remi Jardat, Professor, Director of Research, ISTEC, Paris, France;

Loretta J. Mester, Dr., Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the USA;

Ken Spong, Dr., Vice-President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, the USA;

Jens Hagendorff, Dr., Director, MSc Finance & Investment, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK;

Galina Hale, Senior Economist, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the USA;

Melsa Ararat, Dr., Director and Faculty Member, Corporate Governance Forum of Turkey, Sabanci University, Turkey;

Monal Abdel-Baki, Dr., School of Business, The American University in Cairo, Egypt;

Clare Chambers, Dr., General Secretary of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association Representative (CLEA), UWE Bristol Law School, UK;

Udo Braendle, Dr., University of Vienna, Austria;

Patrick Velte, Dr., University of Hamburg, Germany.