Charlotte Villiers is a Solicitor and Professor of Company law and Corporate Governance at the University of Bristol. She has written several books and articles on various aspects of corporate governance, including Company Law and Corporate Reporting (Cambridge University Press 2006). She was a member of the Research Team on the Sustainable Company Law Project led by the University of Oslo, for which she wrote papers on the issue of accounting and integrated reporting. She is co-editor, with Nina Boeger, of the forthcoming book Shaping the Corporate landscape – Towards Corporate Reform and Enterprise Diversity (Hart Publishing).