Robert A. G. Monks is a pioneering institutional shareholder activist. He co-founded Institutional Shareholder Services (now RiskMetrics), co-founded the Lens Fund, and was chair of the Boston Company. He was a pension administrator in the Department of Labor and was a founding trustee of the Federal Employees Retirement System. Monks is the author of a number of books; his most recent areCorpocracyandCorporate Governance.Alexandra Reed Lajoux is chief knowledge officer at the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). She has been an editor forDirectors & Boards,Mergers & Acquisitions,Export Today, andNACD Director's Monthly. Lajoux is the author of several books on mergers and… acquisitions and received her PhD from Princeton University.