Hugh Crisp chairs the School’s International Advisory Board for Executive Education. He is a former partner and chief executive of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. At Saïd Business School, Hugh has taught both on the Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Programme and the Saudi Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Programme. In custom programmes, he has directed the Herbert Smith Leadership Programme for Partners.

Hugh spent 28 years with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as associate, partner and chief executive, involving him in all aspects of firmwide management, including mergers and organisational transformation. He had in-house experience of executive education as commissioner, designer, client and deliverer of a full suite of associate and partner development programmes.

He was a Director of the Financial Times (1988) and acted as a consultant to the Clinton Foundation HIV/Aids Initiative from 2007–2010. He is an Adviser at Manchester Square Partners, working with senior executives, and a member of the Finance Committee of Oxford University Press. He is Chair of Trustees, Emmaus Oxford, a social enterprise forming part part of a national and international charity that provides accommodation and work for formerly homeless people.