Ruth Sealy

Ruth Sealy is an Associate Professor in Management and Director of Impact at University of Exeter Business School. With global expertise on women on corporate boards, Ruth’s research areas include women in leadership; board composition; role models; board evaluation and various aspects of corporate governance. Prior to joining Exeter, she was Programme Director of the MSc Organisational Psychology, City University of London. Ruth is a member of the Division of Occupational Psychology Board Effectiveness Group and was the academic for the NHS on the Women on Boards Advisory Board (NHS 50:50 by 2020 Board Report). Previously at Cranfield School of Management she was lead researcher on the government’s annual Female FTSE Report 2007-2018. She has co-authored similar reports in Hong Kong and India, advised the European Commission, in the area of women on boards, and presented report findings to academic and practitioner audiences, globally. She has co-authored Best Papers at British Academy of Management and American Academy of Management conferences and published in journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Management Reviews, Corporate Governance International Review, Gender Work & Organisation. She is a Chartered Member of CIPD, a member of the British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology and the British & American Academy of Management. She lectures on Doctoral, MBA and MSc courses and has written a number of book chapters and journal articles. Prior to becoming an academic, Ruth was managing director of a specialist holiday company, which she sold to a larger tour operator. She then worked for a number of years as an organisational psychology consultant, before starting a PhD.