Rebecca C. Grapsas is an associate in the Public Company Advisory Group of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. She counsels corporate directors and managers of US public companies and US-listed foreign private issuers, state-owned enterprises, institutional investors and not-for-profit organizations with respect to governance issues, including board and committee responsibilities and structure, investigations, disclosure and compliance with corporate and securities laws, regulations and listing rules. Ms Grapsas is a regular guest lecturer on corporate governance at the Yale School of Management and served on the Secretariat of the OECD Boardroom Guide Advisory Group and was the editor of “Using the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance – A Boardroom Perspective.” She has written several articles on governance-related topics and is a co-author of the Corporate Law chapter of The Corporate Counsellor’s Deskbook and the Corporate Governance Guidelines for Board Practices and Procedures chapter of Corporate Governance: Law and Practice. Ms Grapsas was named a “Rising Star of Corporate Governance” for 2008 by the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management. She received her law degree (with first class honours) and her bachelor of commerce degree in 2000 from the University of Melbourne, where she was on the editorial board of the Melbourne University Law Review. Ms. Grapsas practiced at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Melbourne, Australia for several years before completing a Master of Laws at Harvard Law School in 2004.