Douglas Chia

Douglas K. Chia is President of Soundboard Governance LLC, Senior Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Corporate Law & Governance, and host of The Public Company Series Podcast. He previously served as Executive Director of The Conference Board Governance & Sustainability Center and as Assistant General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Johnson & Johnson, with earlier roles at Tyco International, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and Clifford Chance in New York and Hong Kong.

He is a Fellow at The Aspen Institute Business & Society Program and Advisor to Foresight BoardOps and PracticalESG.com. Mr. Chia has held leadership roles including Chair of the Society for Corporate Governance and member of the NYSE Corporate Governance Commission and ABA Corporate Laws Committee.

He has been widely recognized in corporate governance and regularly appears in major media, including The Wall Street Journal and FT, and was inducted into the Governance Intelligence Hall of Fame in 2023.

Mr. Chia holds an AB from Dartmouth College and a JD from Georgetown University Law Center and is based in Princeton, NJ.