Caroline Raggett

Caroline Raggett helps global leaders and boards gain a competitive advantage through optimal governance, leadership, and culture. She is based in London.

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With a specific focus on Environment & Nature and Education, Caroline is passionately committed to helping leadership across the world deliver commercially viable, sustainable change. She advises on the appointment of Chairs, independent non-executive directors, CEOs, and other C-suite executives who drive outstanding returns for shareholders. Caroline specializes in working with private equity portfolio companies, family enterprises, and major listed organizations. Her work encompasses critical path projects such as Chairman and CEO succession, founder transition, board effectiveness evaluations, and board build-outs for IPO.

Caroline has significant international experience, including 11 years in Hong Kong with the firm. During this time, she led our CFO and HR practices in the region, co-led our Asia-Pacific Private Equity practice, and was an active member of the Board practice. As a committed member of Hong Kong’s 30% Club, Caroline’s achievements include substantially improving inclusive leadership on boards of companies on the Hang Seng 50 Index and successfully lobbying for more progressive listing rules in Hong Kong. She retains close ties with Asia-Pacific and serves as a Board member of the China-Britain Business Council.

Before joining Russell Reynolds in 2004, Caroline worked in executive search and business intelligence.

"It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself."
- Charles Darwin

Caroline earned her MA in Japanese Studies from the University of Cambridge.
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Areas of Expertise

AgTech Board Director and Chair Search Board Effectiveness Board of Directors CEO Succession Education Energy and Natural Resources Family Business Financial Officers Private Capital

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Caroline is a founding signatory of the Hong Kong 30% Club's Voluntary Code of Conduct and a Steering Committee Member of the Hong Kong 30% Club. She is also an active participant in The Women's Foundation.