Charles M. Elson

Charles M. Elson is the retired Edgar S. Woolard, Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance and the Founding Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. He is also Consultant to the law firm of Holland & Knight and Executive Editor-At-Large for Directors & Boards. His fields of expertise include corporations, securities regulation, and corporate governance. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Virginia Law School and has served as a law clerk to Judges J. Harvie Wilkinson III and Elbert Tuttle of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth and Eleventh Circuits. Elson has written extensively on the subject of boards of directors. He served on the National Association of Corporate Directors’ (NACD) Commissions on Director Compensation, Director Professionalism, CEO Succession, Audit Committees, Strategic Planning, Director Evaluation, Risk Governance, Effective Lead Director, Board Diversity, Talent Development, and Strategy Development and was a member of its Best Practices Council on Coping With Fraud and Other Illegal Activity. He served as well on NACD’s Advisory Council. He is presently a member of the Board of Directors of Enhabit Home Health and Hospice Corporation, a healthcare service provider, and Blue Bell Creameries Inc., a food products manufacturer. He is presently a trustee of the Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art and the Hagley Museum and Library.