People

Advisory Panel

The members of our advisory panel are Sir Mark Moody-Stuart (chairman Hermes Equity Investment Services, and former chairperson of Anglo American), Prof Ollie Williams (Notre Dame University and member of the UN Global Compact Foundation), Judge Mervyn King (chairperson of the King Committee on Corporate Governance and chairperson of the Global Reporting Initiative), Prof Eon Smit (former director of the University of Stellenbosch Business School), Prof Martin Hilb (head of the Center for Corporate Governance at the University of St Gallen), Paul Lee ( Director of Hermes Equity Ownership Services) and Stephen Davis (Executive Director -Millstein Center for Corporate Governance &  Performance,Yale School of Management).

 

Advisory Panel
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart

Sir Moody-Stuart, who holds a PhD in Geology from Cambridge University, is the chairman of Hermes Equity Investment Services and former chairperson of Anglo American plc, a global mining and natural resources company. From 1998 to 2001 Sir Moody-Stuart was chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies. He was co-chair of the G8 Task Force on Renewable Energy in 2000 and 2001. At a special gathering of business leaders ahead of the historic 2006 G8 summit in Gleneagles, he led calls for an improvement in the approach of companies - and governments - in Africa. This included calls to cut debt, enhance aid in Africa, and reverse mega corruption. Sir Moody-Stuart became a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in June 2000. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of Petroleum. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, and an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Aberdeen.

Prof Mervyn King

Prof Mervyn King

Prof Mervyn King

Prof King is a Senior Counsel and former Judge of the High Court of South Africa. He has chaired and has been a director of several companies listed on the Johannesburg, London and Luxembourg Stock Exchanges. He is chairman of the King Committee on Corporate Governance, chairman of the board of the Global Reporting Initiative, president of the Advertising Standards Authority, a member of the Securities Regulation Panel, past president of the Commonwealth Association of Corporate Governance, a former governor of the International Corporate Governance Network and a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group to on Corporate Governance the World Bank. He is professor extraordinaire in the College of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of South Africa.

Prof Ollie Williams

Prof Ollie Williams

Prof Ollie Williams

Prof Williams, associate professor at the Department of Management at the Notre Dame University in Indiana, USA, specialises in business ethics and corporate governance. He has written numerous articles and conference papers on, among others, corporate governance, business values, moral leadership and ethics. He is also professor extraordinaire in Business Ethics at the USB. He holds a PhD in Theology and Ethics from the Vanderbilt University.

Prof Eon Smit

Prof Eon Smit

Prof Eon Smit

Professor Eon Smit holds BComm (cum laude), Hons BComm (cum laude), MComm and DComm degrees from Stellenbosch University and is professor and previous director of University of Stellenbosch Business School and visiting professor at Reims Management School in France. He lectures in the fields of Business Forecasting, Business Statistics and Derivative Instruments. He is editor of the Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics, editor of the South African Journal of Business Management and co-editor of The Investment Analysts Journal. He has been awarded a number of research awards and has published more than a hundred papers in accredited journals. He has also read more than 60 papers at national and international conferences and has extensively consulted for government and private sector institutions. He is chairman of the Bureau for Economic Research as well as the Institute for Futures Research at Stellenbosch University and is member of the Board of USB-ED. He is an Advisory Board member of the University of Hull Business School in the UK and a member of the EQUIS Quality Committee in Brussels. He has chaired more than 20 international audit teams for accreditation agencies such as EQUIS, AMBA and the CHE. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of EDUNIVERSAL in Paris.

His research interests include business cycle analysis, financial derivatives and financial markets. He has extensively published on topics related to persistence in financial markets, seasonal effects in financial markets, volatility and hedging.

Prof Martin Hilb

Prof Martin Hilb

Prof Martin Hilb

 

Martin Hilb studied Political Sciences at the University of Geneva and Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen, where he completed his doctorate and his habilitation.

Before returning to academia, Martin Hilb was associated with Nestlé (Switzerland), Martin & Company (Germany) and finally Schering-Plough Corporation (USA) where he held the positions of Director of HRM for Europe, Africa and the Middle East and Director of Essex Chemie AG.



Martin Hilb's academic posts include:

Adjunct Professor of International HRM at the University of Dallas, Texas (1985 to 2000)

Professor of Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen (1998 to date)

Research Scholar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (1997) and the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Sydney (2004)

Titular Professor at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels (1999 to date)

Martin Hilb is Managing Director of the Institute for Leadership and HRM and its Center for Corporate Governance, President of the Institute for Business Ethics as well as Member of the Board of Governors of the University of Lucerne in Switzerland.

He has consulted organizations in the area of Board Effectiveness and HRM in more then 60 countries.

His latest book on "New Corporate Governance" has been published in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Vietnamese.

For this publication, he has received a Gold Medal from the International Academy of Quality in the US in 2010 "...for exceptional contributions to the principles and practice of quality in Governance".



Paul Lee

Paul Lee

Paul Lee

Paul Lee is a Director at Hermes Equity Ownership Services, with overall responsibility for EOS' engagement internationally on public policy and best practice. His work involves discussing issues of concern with board members of companies in client portfolios, with the aim of helping the companies to change and develop in ways which will add long-term value for shareholders, as well as engaging with regulators and policy-makers to ensure the financial system works in the interests of long-term investors. Paul is also seconded for part of his time into BTPS Management, which provides the executive investment oversight of the BT Pension Scheme, the UK's largest. His remit for BTPS Management is to help ensure that environmental, social and governance and other long-term factors are integrated into investment decision-making and fund manager mandates.

Paul is a member of the UK's Auditing Practices Board and a non-executive director of Australian engagement firm Regnan. He is a member of the executive committee (board) of the Quoted Companies Alliance, having been a member of its corporate governance committee from 2002 to 2008. He is a participant in the Corporate Reporting Users' Forum, which tries to influence the development of accounting standards, as well as a member of the Financial Reporting and Analysis Committee of the CFA Society of the UK, and also participates in the Audit Quality Forum and various of its working groups. He sits on the Financial Reporting Faculty Advisory Group at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and is a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group of the IFC's Global Corporate Governance Forum.

Paul is the current chair of the International Corporate Governance Network's Shareholder Responsibilities Committee and chaired the working group which rewrote the ICGN's overarching Principles in 2009. He also chaired the consultative group which developed Guidance on Good Practice in Corporate Governance Disclosure in developing economies for the UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad). He was a member of the FRC's working party on Auditor Liability Limitation Agreements, and of the Consultative Committee for the FSA's review of the listing regime. Furthermore, he sat on the advisory board of South Africa's Frater Asset Management from 2004 to 2008.

Paul joined Hermes in 2000. Having graduated with a first in law from Oxford University, he spent a decade as a journalist on various specialist legal and financial journals at Euromoney - including five years as editor of International Financial Law Review - and the Economist Group, most recently as managing editor of CFO Europe. He continues to write, including chapters for various corporate governance and strategy books (most notably the chapter on Pension Fund Governance in A Practical Guide to Corporate Governance) and winning the PricewaterhouseCoopers European Shareholder Value Award for his article Not badly paid but paid badly.

Stephen Davis

Stephen Davis

Stephen Davis

Stephen Davis, Ph.D. is Executive Director at Yale University School of Management's Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance and Lecturer on the SOM faculty.

Dr. Davis co-authored (with Jon Lukomnik and David Pitt-Watson)

The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda (Harvard Business School Press, 2006), which was named by the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Australian Financial Review as one of the best business books of 2006. The book has been translated into Japanese, Portuguese, Complex Chinese and Korean. He is also a contributor to Corporate Governance in the Wake of the Financial Crisis (UNCTAD, 2011) and The Origins of Shareholder Advocacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

Davis co-chaired The Conference Board's Working Group on Hedge Funds and served on the US National Association of Corporate Directors' Blue Ribbon Commission on board-shareholder communications. He has testified at US congressional hearings, been a columnist for the

Financial Times and Compliance Week, and is a frequent media commentator on corporate governance. Named by Directorship as among the 100 most influential figures in corporate governance, and by Competia as among 'the most influential corporate governance tweeters,' Davis is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.

Davis pioneered the field of international corporate governance when he founded the global unit at the IRRC, in Washington, DC. His

Shareholder Rights Abroad: A Handbook for the Global Investor (1989) was the first study comparing corporate governance practices in top markets. Dr. Davis is a co-founder of the International Corporate Governance Network, and was its representative to the OECD. Dr. Davis was a member of the UNEP steering group which produced global Principles for Responsible Investment and Policy Network's working group on economic reform. He co-founded GovernanceMetrics International.

Dr. Davis earned his doctorate in international business and security studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and completed undergraduate studies at Tufts and the London School of Economics. Other books include

Apartheid's Rebels: Inside South Africa's Hidden War (Yale University Press, 1987), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Davis served on the US SEC's Investor Advisory Committee, where he chaired the Investor as Owner Subcommittee. He is a board member and former chair of Hermes EOS, the shareowner engagement arm of Hermes Pensions Management, the UK's largest retirement fund; Co-Chair of the board of shareowners.org; Member of the International Advisory Board of NYSE Euronext; Member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Long Term Investing; Member of the Contributing Committee of Development Partners International; Member of the advisory board of Cartica Capital and Member of the Private Sector Advisory Group of the Global Corporate Governance Forum. Davis is President of consultant Davis Global Advisors and founder-editor of the Global Proxy Newsletter