Aberdeen Asset Management questioned on director duties

• Watch Parliament TV: Corporate Governance
• Inquiry: Corporate Governance
• Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee

Witnesses

Wednesday 23 November 2016,  Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster

At 9.30am

• Professor Vanessa Knapp OBE, independent consultant and lecturer in company law and corporate governance, Queen Mary University of London
• Elizabeth Wall, City of London Law Society; and
• Catherine Howarth, Chief Executive, ShareAction

At 10.15am

• Kerrie Waring, Executive Director, International Corporate Governance Network
• Sarah Wilson, Chief Executive, Manifest
• Paul Lee, Head of Corporate Governance, Aberdeen Asset Management; and
• Cliff Weight, Director, Sharesoc

Purpose of the session

The session focuses on:

• director duties, including whether company law is sufficiently clear, if corporate  governance requirements should differ between private and public companies and how best the decisions of boards be scrutinised and open to challenge
• whether the duty to promote the long-term success of a company is clear and enforceable and about how the interests of shareholders and current and former employees are best balanced

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