DIANA DAVID

Founder

Future Proof Lab

Diana Wu David is the author of Future Proof: Reinventing Work in the Age of Acceleration and is an adjunct professor of leadership at Columbia Business School's EMBA Global Asia. A former Financial Times executive, and founder of the Financial Times Non-Executive Directors Diploma in Asia, Diana now works with CEOs and board directors to enhance their leadership agility, influence, collaboration and resilience. Her clients have included the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, the World Bank, Expedia, JP Morgan, Oracle, Citi and Credit Suisse. She began her career and leadership education as an assistant to Dr. Henry Kissinger.

Diana has an MBA from Columbia Business School, is a past recipient of Asia Society’s Asia 21 Leaders award and a former Luce Foundation Scholar. She recently served as Vice Chair, Governance Chair and on the Nominations Committee of the board of the American Chamber of Commerce HK, and has served as an INED on the board of DaVinci Labs (robotics), and an advisory board member of Shared Value Project Hong Kong and Teach4HK. 

She has spoken or written about board behavior and governance for the London Stock Exchange Group, Colombo Stock Exchange, Asia Corporate Governance Association Summit, Women Corporate Directors Global Summit, Asian Development Bank Corporate Governance Summit in the Philippines, YPO in Dubai and Governance UK.