Dr. Filipe Morais is a Lecturer in Governance and Reputation at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK and the Chairman of Risk Insights Independent Ratings Committee for South Africa.  

Filipe regularly produces impactful research commissioned by a variety of private, public and third sector organisations in the UK, US, Portugal and other European countries. He is the co-author of the books “The Independent Director in Society” and the forthcoming “Handbook of ESG and Corporate Governance”, and numerous others book chapters, articles, reports and case studies.  

Dr. Filipe is the Programme Director for Henley’s MSc in Management for Future Leaders, for corporate clients that include Lloyds Banking Group, Cabinet Office, UK Ministry of Justice, the NHS, Post Office and other large employers. He teaches corporate governance, corporate responsibility and ethics and strategic management topics in various programmes in and outside Henley, including INSEAD, Porto Business School, Universita Degli Studi di Padova and Lisbon Law School.  

Filipe is also Advisory Board Member to the practitioner-based Governance Magazine (UK) and sits on the International Editorial Board of California Management Review and on the editorial board of the Journal of Business Governance and Ethics.