dr. Agota Szabo

Senior educator, researcher and board advisor in the field of Organizational and Board Governance. As a board advisor, Agota focuses on helping organizations to review and structure their internal governance processes, to implement governance best practices, to evaluate director performance and to design an onboarding program for new directors. Agota has been working with large foundations and not-for-profit organizations as an advisor and serves as a Chair for a Community of Practice for not-for-profit executives in The Netherlands. She is currently the academic lead on the project of “Supervisory Boards 2.0” with the focus on improving the effectiveness of Supervisory Boards in the Dutch charity sector.
Agota has a PhD in board governance with the focus on how to create a common understanding of governance among directors and how to implement governance best practices. In the past 12 years as an academic Agota has been lecturing to students at undergraduate, graduate and MBA level in various corporate governance, leadership and board governance modules