Ryan Specialty Appoints Cornelli to Board of Directors
Ryan Specialty Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Chicago, Ill., appointed Francesca Cornelli, dean of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, to its board of directors. She will serve as a member of its audit committee.
Cornelli has been the dean of Kellogg School of Management since 2019. Previously, she was a professor of finance and deputy dean at London Business School. Cornelli directed and advanced the Private Equity Institute of London Business School and is a research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. She previously served as a director of the American Finance Association. In 2016, Cornelli helped create and became a board member of AFFECT, a committee of the American Finance Association designed to promote the advancement of women academics in finance. Cornelli also served on the Swiss Re International and Swiss Re Europe board from 2013 to 2019.