Claudia H. Allen, a nationally recognized expert on corporate governance, is a senior advisor with the KPMG Board Leadership Center, where she brings extensive experience advising boards, management, and investors in public and private companies on corporate-governance matters and related issues, such as shareholder activism and engagement; board and committee process and structure; fiduciary duties; environmental, social, and corporate governance; risk; and culture. Prior to joining the center, she was a partner and co-chair of the corporate governance practice at the national law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, where she also represented public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions and securities matters.

Allen is a frequent writer and speaker on corporate governance issues for groups including the American Bar Association, the Ethics and Compliance Institute, the Latino Corporate Directors Association, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, NACD, the National Investor Relations Institute, the Practising Law Institute, the Society for Corporate Governance, and Women Corporate Directors. She has also appeared on CNBC’s Power Lunch and Squawk on the Street.