Nada Kakabadse

Professor Nada Kakabadse is a Professor of Policy, Governance and Ethics at Henley Business School.

She researches boardroom promotion of sustainability and corporate social responsibility and the chair's role in social and environmental issues, as well as governance, board performance, leadership, policy delivery and reputation across 41 countries and 20,000 organisations. Her 22 books and over 240 articles published have won many scholarly awards.

Nada has been a professor at three British universities, advised the British and Omani governments and held senior technology innovation and foreign affairs positions in the Australian and Canadian governments, plus a private sector international corporation in Sweden and the Middle East. She has consulted for Citi, Severstal, National Air Traffic Services (NATS), Alliance and Leicester, Motorola, Glaxo Wellcome and National Grid.

Nada completed her doctorate in Australia. She is a visiting lecturer with the Irish Management Institute (Republic of Ireland), Mannheim Business School (Germany), Ben Gurion (Israel), Macquarie University (Australia), the University of New South Wales (Australia), Université Paris II Pantheon-Assas (France), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) and Capital University of Economics and Business (China).

Listed in Who's Who, Nada is a Fellow of the European Academy of Science and Arts (EASA), the World Certification Institute and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. She is an elected member of the EASA and a member of the Governing Council of the Empress Theophano Foundation.