Interview: Tesco chair John Allan on the role of non-executive directors

Our latest podcast features John Allan, one of the UK’s top corporate leaders, on NEDs’ responsibilities and priorities in a crisis.

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Tesco’s chair John Allan sees some good coming out of the pandemic. Despite the appalling tragedy playing out around the country and the world, Covid-19 has propelled big corporates to think and act much more in the interests of their stakeholders.
Surveys, consultants, academics and observers have been saying this for months. But it is illuminating to hear it from someone working at the heart of an organisation negotiating the crisis—not least one as high profile and as central to British everyday life as Tesco. The pandemic, he says, is making it easier for companies to turn their attention away from a laser aim only on profits.
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