Feena May

Dr Feena May has worked at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRS) for the last 28 years. She founded the ICRC’s Humanitarian Leadership and Management School, a cutting edge leadership programme for the humanitarian sector. Feena is a visiting professor of leadership at IAE Paris Sorbonne, the University of Lucerne, and leads the Strategies for Leadership annual retreat at IMD focusing on developing women in leadership.

She has worked to build bridges between the academic and practitioner worlds and to model what is good leadership in action. Her leadership work builds on over 28 years of experience working in more than 25 different contexts, many of them in times of armed conflict or other situations of armed violence.

Education

• Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris I) / IAE Paris
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Leadership, 2010 – 2013
• IMD Business School
  • High Performing Leadership, 2016 – 2016
• Harvard University
  • Leading with Impact, 2015 – 2015
• Université Paris Dauphine
  • Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA), Leadership, 2007 – 2010
• IMD Business School
  • Strategies for Leadership, 2010 – 2010
• University of Leicester
  • MSc, Training and HRD, 1995 – 1998
• University of Liverpool
  • International Diploma, Humanitarian Assistance, 1997 – 1997
• Dublin City University
  • BSc, Business Administration, 1987 – 1991
• IMD Business School
  • High Performance Boards, 2020 – 2020
• IMD Business School
  • High Performance Boards, 2019 – 2019

Experience

• The Inspiring Company
  • Chief Executive Officer, Jan 2020 – Present
• University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
  • Visiting Professor of Leadership, Dec 2011 – Present
• University of Lucerne
  • Visiting Professor of Leadership, Jan 2018 – Present
• International Committee of the Red Cross
  • Head of Global Learning and Development, Apr 2011 – Jan 2020
  • Deputy Head of the External Resources Division, Sep 2002 – Apr 2011
  • Various field roles, Dec 1992 – Aug 2002