Nell Minow

Nell Minow writes about movies, culture, and values as The Movie Mom and rogerebert.com and about corporate governance, executive compensation, and investing for a variety of publications. She is Vice Chair of ValueEdge Advisors and previously worked at the corporate governance firms GMI Ratings, the LENS Fund, and Institutional Shareholder Services. She was called "the CEO killer" by Fortune Magazine and "the queen of good corporate governance" by Business Week online.

The International Corporate Governance Network presented her with its highest award for exceptional achievements including "positive impact, with long-term significance, on one or more economies" and "confrontation to frustrating oppositions, requiring vision, courage, and fortitude" and she also received Corporate Secretary Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award.

She frequently comments on the financial markets and corporate misbehavior in the press and on television, including op-eds in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and USA Today, on network news broadcasts at ABC, NBC, and CBS, and on ABC's Nightline, CNBC's Kudlow & Cramer, CNN's Crossfire and Moneyline and PBS' Newshour. She has written more than 200 articles about corporate governance as well as chapters in treatises on executive compensation, annual shareholder meetings, and in the books Law Stories, The Dance of Change, The Financial Services Revolution, Leadership and Governance from the Inside Out, and How to Run a Company. She is co-author with Robert A. G. Monks of three books, Power and Accountability, (HarperBusiness 1991), the textbook Corporate Governance (Blackwell 1995, 2001, 2004, 2008 and 2011), and Watching the Watchers: Corporate Governance for the 21st Century (Blackwell 1996). She taught corporate governance to MBA students at George Mason University for five years.

She writes about movies, television, the Internet, and parenting and reviews movies each week for rogerebert.com and moviemom.com and appears on radio stations across the US. Her articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Kansas City Star, USA Today, Family Fun, Daughters, Parents, and three editions of The Practical Guide to Practically Everything. The second edition of her books, The Movie Mom's Guide to Family Movies, was published in 2004. She has been profiled in the New York Times, the Economist, Forbes, the Chicago Tribune, Working Woman, CFO Magazine, the Ladies Home Journal, Washingtonian Magazine, and the Chicago Sun Times, and has appeared as The Movie Mom on CBS This Morning, Fox Morning News, NPR, CNN, and dozens of radio programs. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Chicago Law School.