Charlotte P. Armstrong

Mrs. Armstrong is a senior consultant in the firm’s senior management consulting group. She advises senior management, and boards of directors and compensation committees, of a range of companies on senior executive employment arrangements and compensation, board organization and remuneration, and corporate governance.

Her professional experience includes service as a lawyer in private practice with Cravath, Swaine & Moore and the Law Offices of Joseph E. Bachelder and as counsel with three major corporations. She was also director of research and information services, for consultants and clients, for the human resources consulting practice of KPMG, LLP.

She received her B.A. from Radcliffe College (Harvard University), M.A. from Columbia University and J.D. from Harvard Law School. She writes and speaks on governance issues and on compensation and benefits and other human resources topics. She is co-author of Executive Employment and Compensation.

In 1999 Mrs. Armstrong completed a six-year term as a member of the board of overseers of Harvard University, serving during her last year as president of the board. From 1994 to 1996 she was president of the Harvard Law School Association. More recently, she chaired two university visiting committees, each for five years: to Harvard Law School and to the university’s human resources function.

Mrs. Armstrong currently chairs the board of the American Farm School in Greece and serves on the boards of the English-Speaking Union of the United States, the Royal Oak Foundation, the American Trust for the British Library, and the National Institute of Social Sciences.