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In the last year, there has been a broad shift in corporate governance focus towards social issues, including human capital management – the ‘S’ of ESG.  The proxy voting adviser Glass Lewis notes majority support for a record number of such proposals, including on diversity in the 2020 US proxy season, and this focus is set to continue following human capital management disclosure rules announced by the Securities and Exchange Commission last autumn. CEO pay has come under the spotlight this AGM season as investors have taken a dim view of companies that have benefited either from gov...

Three good reads for the African summer Facebook Gail Collins presents a round-up of all the new and interesting developments in the world of books relating to Africa. Africa does not sleep. Its creative power is keeping it awake and waking up others too. Great authors continue to bring their stories to the world, literary programmes are ramping up and soon creative minds will be back together again, unleashing new ideas and encouraging fresh writers to tell their story. This summer’s reads are already on their way and just published is The South African novelist, playwright, scholar and a...

Presider Cofounder and President, PowerToFly; CFR Term Member Dambisa Moyo discusses why corporations need boards that are more transparent, more knowledgeable, more diverse, and more deeply involved in setting the strategic course of the companies they lead. Her latest book,  How Boards Work, offers a road map for how boards can steer companies through tomorrow's challenges and ensure they thrive to benefit their employees, shareholders, and society at large.

Transcript Merryn Somerset Webb: Hello, and welcome to the MoneyWeek magazine podcast. I am Merryn Somerset Webb, editor in chief of the magazine and with me today I have a special treat for you readers: Dambisa Moyo. Dambisa is an economist and an author. Several of you – well not several of you, thousands of you – will have heard me talking to her before about her various books. I think the one we last discussed on this was Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing To Deliver Economic Growth. I think we did a quite a fun video on that one. And I also once talked to you about

Dr Priyamvada Gopal asked if she was right to think Dr Tony Sewell was not a Dr She continued attacking the 62-year-old - asking where his doctorate was from The professor of postcolonial studies later conceded that he did hold doctorate But she made a bizarre reference to Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief Dr Goebbels Cambridge said it 'profoundly disagreed with the gratuitous comment' tonight