Administration

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anne.simpson@yale.edu

Anne Simpson was appointed in 2004 as the first Executive Director of the International Corporate Governance Network, whose members are drawn from over 30 countries worldwide, and include investors responsible for US$10 trillion in global assets (www.icgn.org). Prior to this she was Head of the Secretariat at the Global Corporate Governance Forum, founded by the World Bank and OECD to support reform in developing and emerging markets, with programmes in Latin America, East and South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Russia and Eastern Europe (www.gcgf.org). The Forum sponsored private sector dialogue and policy development, academic research and director training in a wide range of markets. Before being recruited to the World Bank, initially on secondment in 1998, she was for more than 10 years joint Managing Director of Pensions & Investment Research Consultants Ltd, Europe’s leading independent investment advisers on corporate governance and corporate responsibility to institutional shareholders with assets of over €700 billion. (www.pirc.co.uk)

She is a Faculty Fellow at the Yale School of Management where she co-teaches ‘Governing the Corporation’ with Ira Millstein. Anne also sits on the advisory board of Governance for Owners, the investment management firm which promotes shareholder engagement as a strategy for value creation. She is a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the Global Corporate Governance Forum. 

Anne is a member of the editorial board of the journal ‘Corporate Governance: An International Review’, published by Blackwells and contributes to the OECD’s Board Room Guide project, and sat on their ad hoc task force which developed their Principles of Corporate Governance. She also writes a regular column for the business magazine ‘Chartered Secretary.’ Her publications on corporate governance and corporate responsibility include the books ‘Fair Shares: the future of shareholder power and responsibility’, with Jonathan Charkham (Oxford University Press 1999) and ‘The Greening of Global Investment: how politics, ethics and the environment are reshaping strategy’ (Economist Publications 1991).

Anne read Politics, Philosophy & Economics at St Hilda’s College, Oxford and was a Slater Fellow in Development Economics at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. Anne was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Commerce & Manufacture in 1995. She has a son (aged 21) and two daughters (aged 17 and 13).