The governance confidence gap: Are boards really ready for what they're accountable for?

Tracey Brady is Vice President, Business & Product Strategy at Diligent and an accomplished governance professional with more than 25 years of experience across governance and compliance. In her role, she brings a practitioner perspective to the development and strategy of products specifically for governance and compliance functions. Before joining Diligent, Tracey was a Partner at KPMG, where she led the UK company secretarial and global entity management practice. She began her career as a company secretary in the fund management sector, later moving into the listed company arena and building deep expertise in boardroom governance and corporate transactions. She also served as Managing Director of Company Matters, a division of Link Group, where she led a business recognised for excellence in corporate governance services. Tracey brings extensive insight into the evolving governance landscape and is known for helping organisations translate complexity into stronger governance practice and more effective operating models.

Dr Mimi Ajibadé PhD FCG works on a central question in AI governance: how boards can exercise meaningful accountability when responsibility for AI design, deployment and use is distributed across an organisation. A Chartered Governance Professional, company secretary and adviser with more than 25 years' experience, she has worked across listed, regulated, public-sector, private-equity-backed and international organisations. Her work includes designing governance frameworks, decision rights, committee mandates and reporting lines that connect organisational activity, risk and accountability to board-level decision-making. Most recently, she has supported the AI Working Group of a multi-jurisdictional development finance group developing practical approaches to AI governance and oversight. Mimi also brings extensive experience in governance convening and public policy. She convened the Chartered Governance Institute's Subsidiary Governance Conference in 2023 and held convening, hosting and ambassadorial roles at Chatham House between 2014 and 2022. She served for seven and a half years as a trustee and non-executive director of Chatham House. A published author in the Institute's Governance & Compliance magazine, Mimi writes on governance, risk, accountability and emerging regulatory developments. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute, holds a PhD in Corporate Law and Governance from SOAS, University of London, and developed the Cross-Border Governance Risk (CBGR) framework and the AI Accountability Model.

Nathalie is currently Deputy Company Secretary at Rothschild & Co. She is a qualified solicitor who took the CGI qualifying exams to return to work after a lengthy career break. She has previously worked at Deloitte in their Legal Entity Management team and in the corporate govenance team at Santander UK plc, holding roles as board support assistant, regulatory affairs manager and assistant company secretary.