Profile: Sophie L'Helias

It's a conference speaker's nightmare. Five o'clock on a Friday afternoon and the audience is dwindling fast. But those who bothered to stay at this year's Pirc (Pensions Investment Research Consultants) conference on corporate governance in London were treated to a fact-filled introduction to the state of play in France. Well aware of the impending train and plane departures preying on her listeners' minds, Sophie L'Helias's 15 minute discourse on the arrival of le gouvernement d'entreprise