Biography

Stilpon Nestor is a senior corporate governance expert with significant entrepreneurial experience. Until 2022, he was the Executive Chairman of Nestor Advisors Ltd, a London-based corporate governance consultancy he founded in 2003. After the company was sold to Morrow Sodali- now Sodali & Co, owned by private equity firm TPG- Stilpon became the Chairman of Sodali EMEA and subsequently a Senior Advisor to the firm.

As the leader of Nestor Advisors over the last twenty years, Stilpon advised the boards of some of the largest financial institutions and companies in the EU, EMEA, Asia and Latin America as well as several IFIs, including the World Bank/IFC, the EBRD and the EIB.

From 1996 until 2002, Stilpon was the Head of the Corporate Affairs Division at the OECD, the team which produced the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance in 1999. The Principles in their current form remain the global corporate governance policy benchmark. Before joining the OECD in 1991, Stilpon pursued a career in law.

Stilpon has been a member of the UK Institute of Directors (IoD) Advisory Board on Corporate Governance since 2019. In February 2025, he was also appointed a member of the IoD Commission on the role of non-executive directors. Since September 2023, he has been serving as visiting scholar at the Economics Department of the National and Kapodistiran University of Athens.

From 2010 until 2020, Stilpon was a non-executive director of ACC, one of the largest contractors in the UAE. He was also a board member and member of the board risk committee of the European Investment Bank (2010-2013); a member of the EU Commission’s Advisory Board on Company Law and Corporate Governance (2005-2010); and a member of the board of the International Corporate Governance Network (2004-2007).

Stilpon has authored/edited several books and articles on corporate governance, privatisation and restructuring. He has lectured extensively on these issues, including in several academic institutions such as London Business School. Sciences Po, Cambridge University and the EUI.

He has a legal background with a law degree from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (magna cum laude) and an LLM from Harvard Law School (1983).