Douglas K. Chia

Douglas K. Chia is the sole owner and President of Soundboard Governance LLC and Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance.  

Mr. Chia was previously Executive Director of The Conference Board ESG Center and continues to contribute to The Conference Board as a Senior Fellow.  He is also a Fellow for The Aspen Institute Business & Society Program.

Before joining The Conference Board in 2016, Mr. Chia served as Assistant General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Johnson & Johnson.  Previously, he served as Assistant General Counsel, Corporate of Tyco International and practiced law at the global firms Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Clifford Chance in New York and Hong Kong. 

Mr. Chia has held a number of central leadership positions in the corporate governance field, including Chair of the Board of the Society for Corporate Governance, President of the Stockholder Relations Society of New York, and member of the New York Stock Exchange Corporate Governance Commission.  He is currently a member of the Corporate Laws Committee of the American Bar Association, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and Ascend Pan-Asian Leaders.  Mr. Chia has received numerous awards and recognitions in corporate governance and has frequently appeared in the news media, including CNN, NPR Marketplace, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and The New Yorker. 

Mr. Chia received an A.B. degree from Dartmouth College and a J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.  Mr. Chia is a Trustee of the Historical Society of Princeton and the McCarter Theatre Center.  He lives with his wife and four children in Princeton, New Jersey.