Louis Cooper

Louis is Chief Executive and one of the founders of the UK’s Non-Executive Directors’ Association (‘NEDA’) – the members Association that was set up in 2006-7 to support the specific needs and demands of Non-Executive Directors and Trustees across all sectors and at each stage of their ‘life-cycle’. Louis leads the NED and board training, education and advisory services. He also oversees the publication of the ‘Non-Executive Directors’ Handbook’ (5th Edition: 2019) and NEDA’s sponsorship of the Non-Executive Director Awards – 16th year in 2022.

Louis has over 25 years’ experience in governance, risk and assurance services and in public practice has worked for all of the ‘Big 4’ Accounting firms and for 6 years was a partner at the UK top 10 audit firm Crowe Clark Whitehill (now Crowe UK), where he led the Risk & Assurance team. He now also acts as an Associate with three risk, assurance and strategy consultants.

Louis is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (‘ICAEW’) and a member of the Institute of Risk Management (‘IRM’) and the Institute of Internal Auditors (‘IIA’). He is also a member of the Quoted Companies Alliance (‘QCA’) Corporate Governance Expert Group and co-wrote the QCA 2018 Corporate Governance Code and the updated QCA Guide for Audit Committees in 2019.