The business world is suffering from a lack of trust with citizens around the globe believing that companies pursue short-term profit and enrich their executives at the expense of long-term growth and wider society.
Effective corporate governance is critical to ensure that companies focus on the long-term benefits of both their shareholders and stakeholders
The Centre focused on the following overarching themes:
Alex is Academic Director of the CCG and Managing Editor of the Review of Finance, the leading academic finance journal in Europe. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk ‘What to Trust in Post-Truth World’ and the TEDx talk ‘The Social Responsibility’ with a combined 2.3 million views. He has written op-eds for The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times and appeared on Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, CNN, ITV, Reuters, and Sky News. Alex serves on the Steering Group of The Purposeful Company and on Royal London Asset Management’s Responsible Investment Advisory Committee. Alex’s book, “Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit”, was named to the Financial Times Business Books of the Year for 2020.
Chairman of CCG, Non-Executive Director of the Investor Forum
Experience
Paul is a former director of McKinsey & Company, where he worked for 27 years across a wide range of industries. Paul was head of McKinsey’s UK insurance practice and a global leader of the firm’s financial institutions practice. He served leading financial institutions in the US, Japan, Continental Europe and Scandinavia.
Paul also led the firm’s work in corporate governance, working with publicly quoted and private companies on board effectiveness and corporate strategy.
More recently, he served as a specialist adviser to the BEIS Select Committee Inquiry on corporate governance. He is a member of the Financial Reporting Council’s Stakeholder Advisory Panel.
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Tom Gosling
Executive Fellow, London Business School, and former Partner at PwC
Tom Gosling is an Executive Fellow at LBS where he contributes to the evidence-based practice of responsible business by connecting academic research, public policy, and corporate action. He works with the Centre for Corporate Governance and the Leadership Institute at LBS. Tom is also a member of the Steering Committee of The Purposeful Company, a think tank devoted to identifying ways in which the UK corporate governance environment can be developed to support companies that create profit through fulfilling a purpose that benefits society.
Tom has 20+ years of experience as a board adviser and is a leading independent authority on corporate governance and responsible business. Most recently he was a senior Partner at PwC where he established and led the firm’s executive pay practice, advising FTSE-100 and equivalent private and European companies on corporate governance and executive pay.
Tom engages extensively with regulators such as BEIS, the FRC and the FCA on remuneration, corporate governance and stewardship policy matters and has given evidence to the BEIS Select Committee and the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards. He is a regular commentator in print, broadcast, and social media. Tom has a PhD in Applied Mathematics and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.
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