national arts marketing project
Workshops

Presenter Bios

Holly J. Gregory
Partner, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York , New York

Holly J. Gregory counsels directors, trustees, and senior managers of public and private, for-profit and nonprofit, corporations on a range of governance issues, including director and trustee responsibilities, conflicts of interest, board and committee structure, audit committee investigations, board audits and self-evaluation processes, institutional investor initiatives, international governance “best practices,” and compliance with legislative, regulatory and listing rule requirements.

In the public policy arena, Ms. Gregory has worked on various corporate governance projects to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Commission, the World Bank, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.  She has authored and co-authored a number of publications on corporate governance.

In addition to her legal practice and policy efforts, Ms. Gregory is a faculty member for the National Association of Corporate Director’s education programs.  She has also lectured on corporate governance topics at programs sponsored by the OECD, the World Bank, the SEC, the US State Department (in Japan and Turkey), the Conference Board, the American Corporate Counsel Association, the American Society of Corporate Governance Professionals, The National Association of Public Pension Attorneys, Institutional Shareholder Services, and The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, among others.

Ms. Gregory was named by her peers to the first International Who’s Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers in 2002 and in the subsequent 2004 and 2006 editions, and in 2005, was named in a Legal Media Group survey of lawyers as among the world’s top corporate governance lawyers, ranking in the top ten by number of nominations

Ms. Gregory received her J.D. summa cum laude from New York Law School in 1986, where she was executive editor of the New York Law School Law Review.  Upon graduation, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Roger J. Miner, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  She serves on the Board of the International Senior Lawyers Project.

Back to Workshop Details