Amanda Packel is the managing director of the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University, where she coordinates and executes the center’s programs and projects and serves as co-director of Stanford Directors’ College, an executive education program for board members and senior executives of publicly traded firms. In addition, she conducts research and speaks on corporate governance issues, with publications on diversity on corporate boards, leadership and ethics in nonprofits. Packel also serves on the boards of directors of The Thirty Percent and the Silicon Valley Directors’ Exchange (SVDX). She was recently named one of the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 2017 Women of Influence. Prior to joining Stanford, Packel practiced law at Covington & Burling and Orrick, where she focused on white-collar criminal defense and internal investigations. She received her A.B. in Economics, magna cum laude, from Princeton University and a J.D., order of the coif, from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She is a former law clerk to Judge Marsha S. Berzon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The Directors’ College is in its 23rd year at Stanford. Corporate Counsel caught up with Amanda before this year’s event in June to ask what’s in store and how the college has managed to increase diversity over the years.
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