Prof. Cossin is the Chairman of PNYX Group. He is a renowned governance thought leader. He works with asset owners, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurances, family offices and central banks in fostering governance for investments. He provides best-in-class trusted advisory on governance and alignment of investments to objectives of those institutions. He is principal author behind the methodology of the Good Governance Fund, an investment fund that brings performance through investment into well governed institutions. Professor Cossin is the founder and chaired director of the IMD Global Board Center, the originator of the Four Pillars of Board Effectiveness methodology and an advocate of Stewardship. He is the author and co-author of books such as “High Performance Boards”, “Inspiring Stewardship”, “Advanced Credit Risk Analysis”, book chapters (such as Governance Risk: A Guide for Investors) and many articles in the fields of governance, investments, risks and stewardship, several of which have obtained citations of excellence or other awards. Professor Cossin is an advisor and/or executive teacher with the United Nations, central banks of several countries, ministries as well as sovereign wealth funds and supranational organizations (European Central Bank, IFC, IOC), the boards or executive committees of corporations, financial institutions and funds in Europe, Asia, Americas, Africa and the Middle East. He advises some leading non-profit organisations on governance issues (Unicef, the Red Cross). He is a member of the Risk Who's Who Society, the American Finance Association, the Eastern Finance Association, and the European Finance Association. Professor Cossin holds a PhD from Harvard University (Robert C. Merton Chair) and is a former Fulbright Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics (USA). He is a former student of École Normale Supérieure (ENS) rue d'Ulm (France) and holds a Master’s degree from Sorbonne University and EHESS (France).