Professor Steen Thomsen

Steen Thomsen is Professor and leader of the Center for Enterprise Foundations at Copenhagen Business School.  As the founder of the Center for Corporate Governance, Copenhagen Business School he specializes in corporate governance and enterprise foundations as a teacher, researcher, consultant and commentator. His academic publications include more than 50 international journal articles and several books on corporate governance. His research is currently focused on enterprise foundations – foundations that own business firms. Steen has served as a non-executive board member in several business companies and is currently a non-executive board member  of 3 start-up companies and 2 enterprise foundations.  He is a co-founder of the International Corporate Governance Society, the Board Leadership Society of Denmark and CBS board programs. He has written more than 100 columns for the Danish business newspaper Børsen and served as a consultant and lecturer to several large companies and government organizations. He has also contributed to best practice codes and law in the area of corporate governance and industrial foundations.