Ira Millstein and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld Named Among 'Most Influential' in Corporate Governance

Directorship has named Ira Millstein, senior associate dean for corporate governance and founder of the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean for executive programs and Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, to the 2009 Directorship 100, the magazine’s annual list of the “most influential people in the boardroom and corporate governance community.”

Millstein, who is a senior partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, was cited in “The Attorneys” category. In recognizing Millstein, the magazine wrote, “As one of the most renowned attorneys in America, a corporate governance icon long before the term meant anything to most people, Ira Millstein (Hall of Fame ’08) has been at the forefront of governance experts calling for boards to embrace the need for more stringent risk oversight.

Sonnenfeld was cited in the “Professors” category, where he was honored as “a respected, well-credentialed member of the ‘business guru’ camp,” for his founding of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, and for his academic and boardroom achievements. “Sonnenfeld has shared his business wisdom with such global behemoths as IBM, JPMorgan Chase, Yahoo, and Microsoft, lending his considerable knowledge to the world’s top movers and shakers,” wrote the magazine.

The third-annual list is published in the October/November 2009 issue of Directorship.