Alexandra Reed Lajoux is chief knowledge officer (CK)) emeritus at the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and founding principal of Capital Expert Services, LLC. She has served as editor of Directors & Boards, Mergers & Acquisitions, Export Today, and Director’s Monthly, and has coauthored a series of books on M&A for McGraw-Hill, including The Art of M&A and eight spin-off titles on strategy, valuation, financing, structuring, due diligence, integration, bank M&A, and distressed M&A. For Bloomberg/Wiley, she coauthored a tome on corporate valuation for portfolio investment. Dr. Lajoux serves on advisory boards of the M&A Leadership Council and Campaigns and Elections, and is a Fellow of the Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism. She holds a B.A. from Bennington College, a Ph.D.from Princeton University, and an M.B.A. from Loyola University in Maryland. She is certified as a Competent Communicator by Toastmasters International.