Michele Hooper

Michele Hooper is President and CEO of The Directors’ Council, which consults with major companies to improve the effectiveness of their corporate governance. With more than 30 years of corporate board experience, including over 25 years chairing audit committees of several global companies, Michele is a highly regarded governance expert and business leader. In 2017 she was selected as the National Association of Corporate Directors’ (NACD) Director of the Year. Michele currently serves on the corporate boards of directors of UnitedHealth Group (chair, Nominating and Governance) and United Airlines (chair, Audit Committee). She previously served on the boards of directors of PPG Industries, Target Corporation, Seagrams, Warner Music Group and AstraZeneca. Michele is Vice Chair of the Smithsonian National Board and is a board member of the Van Wezel Foundation. She retired from the boards of the NACD and the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ), where she was Chair of the CAQ Working Group focused on Deterring and Detecting Financial Reporting Fraud. Previously, Michele served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Voyager Expanded Learning and of Stadtlander Drug Company Inc. Prior to joining Stadtlander, she was Corporate Vice President, Caremark International Inc., and President of the International Business Group, responsible for the expansion of Caremark into Europe, Canada and Japan. Michele began her career at Baxter International; as President of Baxter Canada she led Canada’s largest health care and laboratory supplies company.