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Appendix B
sory board of Bain & Co.) and is chairman of several
international philanthropic bodies in the
fields of medicine, education and music.
GUY JUBB is Head of Corporate
Governance at Standard Life Investments,
a leading investment manager with 128
billion Euros in assets under management. Guy
is responsible for the management of all of
Standard Life Investments’ corporate governance
activities. He has been involved in developing
best practice approaches to corporate governance
since 1993 and has extensive experience of
European governance issues.
COLIN MAYER is Peter Moores Professor
of Management Studies at the Saïd
Business School and Director of the Oxford
Financial Research Centre. Professor Mayer has
written widely on corporate finance, taxation and
governance and on the regulation of financial
markets. He has directed the European Science
Foundation Network in Financial Markets and
the Financial Economics Programme of the
Centre for Economic Policy Research. In addition
to having held visiting fellowships at Stanford,
MIT and Brussels University (ULB), where he
was the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor
of Corporate Governance, he is a Delegate of
OUP and Chairman of Oxford Economic
Research Associates (OXERA) and serves on the
boards of several leading academic journals.
CHRIS PIERCE is the Managing Director
of Global Governance Services Ltd. His
work involves developing directors and
boards in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the
US, South America and South East Asia. Prior to
becoming MD, he was the Director of
Professional Standards and Professional
Development at the Institute of Directors (IoD).
He has also held senior management positions in
the Overseas Development Administration,
British Airways and Leeds Business School.
Chris has written extensively on director and
board development issues. His key publications
include: The Effective Director: an essential
guide to director and board development (Kogan
Page, 2001) and The Handbook of International
Corporate Governance (IoD, 2004) [co-edited
with Kerrie Waring]. He is currently writing a
Toolkit on Developing, Crafting and Reviewing
Corporate Governance Codes for the Global
Corporate Governance Forum (part of the World
Bank) to be published in Summer 2005.
DAN PRENTICE is a Professor in the
Faculty of Law at the University of
Oxford. He teaches Company Law,
Corporate Insolvency and Corporate Finance,
combining teaching with a mainly advisory practice
at Erskine Chambers. He is a member of
both the Law Society's Committee on Company
Law and the Law Society's Committee on
Insolvency Law.
ALASTAIR ROSS GOOBEY CBE is currently
Chairman of Hermes Focus and
John Wainwright and Co.Ltd. He is also
Deputy Chairman of GWR Group plc, a Governor
of the Wellcome Trust (the UK's largest medical
research charity), and a Senior Advisor to and a
member of the European Advisory Board of
Morgan Stanley. Between January 1993 and
December 2001 he was Chief Executive of
Hermes Pensions Management Ltd., the executive
arm of the BT Pension Scheme, the UK's
largest. His career prior to that included periods
as manager of the Courtaulds Ltd. pension fund,
and as Chief Investment Strategist at James
Capel. He is Chairman of the International
Corporate Governance Network, a member of the
European Commission's 15-member Corporate
Governance Forum, an honorary Fellow of the
Institute of Actuaries, and an honorary chartered
Surveyor.
JONATHAN RICKFORD CBE is a solicitor
and consultant on regulation and European
law and policy, Director of the Company
Law Centre at the British Institute of
International and Comparative Law, and visiting
professor in Comparative Company Law at the
London School of Economics. In 2002 he was a
member of the EU High Level Group ("Winter
Group") on Corporate Law, and Visiting
Professor at the University of Leiden in the
Netherlands. He was the Project Director of the
Government's independent Review of Company
Law from 1998 to 2001. Mr Rickford was a legal
adviser to the DTI from 1972 to 1987 and their
chief legal adviser from 1984 -1987. He was chief
legal adviser, director of regulation and director
of corporate strategy with British Telecom plc
between 1987 and 1996. He is a member of the
City of London Corporation Advisory Panel.
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