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unusual facts about corporate governance



Cairn India

Previously, Mr Chandra was the Chairman of the Committee on Corporate Governance, India’s Ambassador to the USA, Advisor to the prime minister, Governor of Rajasthan, Cabinet Secretary to the Government of India, and Chief Secretary to the Government of Rajasthan.

Review of the role and effectiveness of non-executive directors

Review of the role and effectiveness of non-executive directors (or the "Higgs review") was a report chaired by Derek Higgs on corporate governance commissioned by the UK government, published on 20 January 2003.

Rolandas Valiūnas

Then he continued his education in 1994 at the "Queen Mary & Westfield Coledge the University of London (in UK 1994), USA, at the Academy of International Law in Dallas, Texas, USA (1996). From 1999 to 2000 he studied at the Baltic Management Institute (BMI), the Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) program (2000). After that, he is a lecturer in the course of the BMI Institute "Corporate Governance".

Tiphook

In light of Tiphook and the Robert Maxwell scandal at the Daily Mirror, the UK Government introduced the earliest stages of legislation covering corporate governance.

Vikramaditya Khanna

He was a recipient of the John M. Olin Faculty Fellowship for 2002–2003, and his areas of research and teaching interest include corporate and securities laws, law in India, corporate governance in emerging markets, corporate crime, corporate and managerial liability, and law and economics.


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Adolf A. Berle

His book, The Modern Corporation and Private Property, which he co-authored with economist Gardiner Means, remains the most quoted text in corporate governance studies.

Christopher Kolade

Currently, he teaches Corporate Governance and Human Resources Management at Lagos Business School (LBS), and Leadership & Conflict Management at School of Media & Communication (SMC).

Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission

High-profile business scandals and failures (e.g. Enron, Tyco International, Adelphia, Peregrine Systems and WorldCom) led to calls for enhanced corporate governance and risk management.

David Pitt-Watson

He also co-authored The New Capitalists with Stephen Davis and Jon Lukomnik, which describes how structures of corporate governance can help ensure companies work in the interest of the millions of individuals who own their shares.

James McConvill

Following his time at AAR, he worked at Deakin University and LaTrobe University before becaming a principal at The Corporate Research Group, International, an Australian think-tank on corporate governance, his academic specialty.

He is the editor of the international corporate governance journal, The Corporate Governance Law Review. Currently he works at Victoria University, Australia, Melbourne, Australia.

Joe Ghartey

He has also been an adjutant lecturer in Corporate Governance at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), He was also an instructor of the Ghana Stock Exchange.

King Report

King Report on Corporate Governance - three reports (King I, King II, King III) detailing the South African corporate governance code

Nasser Saidi

He is co-chair with the OECD of the MENA Corporate Governance Working Group and established the Lebanon Corporate Governance Task Force.

Preeti Malhotra

Preeti Malhotra (born 9 April 1965) is the Executive Director and Group President of Corporate Governance and Corporate Affairs at Spice Global, a diversified conglomerate, headquartered at Singapore.

Robert A. G. Monks

He is the author of Corpocracy and The New Global Investors and, with Nell Minow, Watching the Watchers, Corporate Governance and Power & Accountability.

Ruben Vardanian

He is an active member of many business organizations, notably the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, where he sits on the Management Committee and is also Chairman of the organization’s Corporate Governance Committee and Arbitrator of its United Committee on Corporate Ethics.

UK Shareholders Association

Submissions have included to corporate governance committees including Cadbury, Greenbury, and Myner's.

Votorantim Group

Its model of corporate governance assures the Ermírio Morais family strategic controlling positions in the Executive Board, the Brazilian businessman Antônio Ermírio de Moraes is the representative of the family in company, and it has non-family professionals at the forefront of the Business Units.