Anna is vice president, ESG advisory at SquareWell Partners. She is an ESG specialist who started her career as a research consultant at a strategic marketing consultancy based in London. Prior to joining SquareWell, Anna was an ESG research analyst at Vigeo Eiris, an affiliate of Moody's, where she rated listed companies' ESG practice and performance. During her time at Vigeo Eiris, Anna gained a deep understanding of key sustainability issues, ranging from human rights to climate change, and learned how such issues affect companies' sustainable growth.
Andrew Hobbs leads EY’s EMEIA public policy team, which works with key stakeholders, including in Brussels. It aims to strengthen the working relationship between the public and private sectors in policy and regulatory matters on topics such as sustainability, technology, corporate governance (including reporting and assurance) and skills.
Andrew is chair of the research advisory board for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and the corporate governance working group of the European Contact Group (whose members comprise the six largest accounting networks in the EU). He is vice-chair of the corporate governance policy group of Accountancy Europe and a member of both the financial capital committee of the International Corporate Governance Network and of the corporate governance committee of business at OECD. He blogs regularly about the role of corporate governance in trust.
Chris Hodge is senior adviser at The Institute of Directors Centre for Corporate Governance. He was formerly an adviser to the International Corporate Governance Network, and policy adviser to ICSA: The Governance Institute in the UK. For ten years until 2014, Chris was director of corporate governance at the UK’s Financial Reporting Council. He was responsible for developing and promoting the UK Corporate Governance Code, and for introducing the first national stewardship code for investors in 2010. Between 2014 and 2016, Chris was the FRC’s strategy director. Chris established, and chaired until 2015, the European Corporate Governance Codes Network, which brings together the bodies responsible for codes in 28 European countries. Chris is director of Governance Perspectives Ltd.
Garry Honey is a writer and speaker on board performance and governance issues. He approaches risk from a behavioural economics perspective focusing on the role perception of risk in achieving sound judgment. He examines risk aversion and other types of decision bias that impede sound board decisions. He is the founder of Chiron Risk (www.chiron-risk.com).
Nick Hood is a business risk adviser for Opus Business Services, which provides business advice and restructuring. Nick is well known as a media business pundit, appearing regularly on the BBC and other broadcast channels, contributing to the national, regional and trade press in the UK and writing articles for a wide range of professional magazines and websites. He is also a chartered accountant and a former insolvency practitioner.
Richard Howitt is chief executive officer of the International Integrated Reporting Council. As such he is spearheading the adoption of Integrated Reporting globally and is a major thought-leader in international debates on good corporate governance, shifting investment to the long-term and inclusive capitalism.
Prior to being appointed to the IIRC, Richard served as an elected Member of the European Parliament for more than 20 years and was rapporteur on corporate responsibility. In this capacity, he was key architect of the EU’s non-financial information directive, one of the biggest transformations in corporate disclosure anywhere in the world.
Mark is an associate professor of finance at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Business School. His research interests are mainly in corporate governance and in law and finance. His work has appeared in major finance journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He received his PhD in finance from UNSW in 2012 and has also received qualifications in law.
