Rich Fields advises public company boards of directors, C-suite executives, and in-house counsel on issues related to corporate governance, board leadership, and stakeholder engagement. Rich’s expertise includes board composition and leadership, effective disclosure, activist and other shareholder interventions, contested situations, shareholder and other stakeholder engagement, board and director evaluations, ESG issues, governance policies, and other complex issues involving boards and corporate leaders. Rich is a recognized authority on corporate governance and board leadership and a sought-out author and speaker. He is regularly quoted in publications such as the New York Times, Agenda, The Deal, Ethical Boardroom, Governance Minutes, and C-Suite Insight, has lectured at a corporate governance course at Harvard University, and presented at events for the Society of Corporate Governance, Corporate Board Member, Equilar, NYSE Governance, and others. He has authored chapters on corporate governance in each edition of "The Handbook of Board Governance." Rich was one of four global winners of the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership’s Rising Star of Corporate Governance Award in 2015.Rich co-chaired the Shareholder-Director Exchange Working Group and was principal architect of the SDX Protocol, a guide for shareholder engagement supported by investors today representing more than $20 trillion in assets under management. Prior to Russell Reynolds, Rich was a partner at King & Spalding, where he counseled public companies on governance, leadership, and stakeholder issues. Rich was previously a partner at Tapestry Networks where he worked closely with the chairs of compensation and audit committees, independent board chairs and lead directors, and the stewardship leaders of the world’s largest asset managers.