Konstantinos Stathopoulos is a corporate governance scholar and holds a Chair in Accounting and Finance at Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK. He is the joint Editor-in-Chief of Corporate Governance: An International Review, the leading academic journal for international corporate governance research. He has twenty years of experience conducting research across most areas of corporate governance, with a particular focus on executive compensation and how suboptimal governance practices may destroy stakeholder wealth. He has presented his research at international conferences, academic institutions and business organisations around the world and regularly consults regulators and policymakers on corporate governance matters.