While the Covid-19 pandemic may not have been caused by a corporate governance failing, it has certainly shone a light on areas that need reform. This week the UK’s Institute of Directors launched a new Centre for Corporate Governance with a discussion event aimed at weeding out some of the big issues in the current age and illuminated by the pandemic. Here’s a checklist: the annual general meeting is “not fit for purpose”; governance must adapt urgently to stakeholder capitalism; businesses need to define their corporate purpose; corporates must come to terms with the quid pro quo required of having received billions of pounds in state financial support during the lockdown; directors need to be more accountable and more profe