Habibunnisha Patel is General Counsel & Company Secretary at Cancer Research UK. She trained as an M&A lawyer and spent 10 years at Slaughter & May before building a portfolio career in international development. Her first General Counsel & Company Secretary role was at Save the Children UK – and she moved to her current role in 2022

At Governance Jersey 2025 this month, Dr Scarlett Brown, Susan Fadil and Adam Jeffries will discuss how AI is already behind the scenes in governance - and how we proceed safely from here

Governance – in its broadest sense – turned out to be a remarkably transferrable skill for Sarah Cox, whose switch into financial services meant trying something very different… and a little bit the same.

With threats multiplying and black-hat hackers equipped with an increasingly diverse armoury, it's worth reviewing where the board should be on cybersecurity.

Business ethics seem to be under attack in the face of short-term financial and political pressures. Winning the long game demands boards hold the line on ethical decision-making

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No, Napoleon didn’t ask for “lucky generals”. (It was probably Mazarin.) But it seems a lot of CEOs lucked into their leadership roles. Maybe we should embrace that fact.

Our professional pride – and integrity – can be sustained though a positive approach to lifelong learning.

The raft of new rules and realities at the start of 2025 reminds us that good governance should serve the people – whether that’s company secretaries or society at large.