New webinar – 27. October European Board Practices – learnings and inspirations

Across Europe you find different models for how boards are organised. Some has one tier boards, others two tier boards. What are the pro and cons for each model? And what can Norwegian boards learn from and be inspired by to improve their own performance?
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Chris Hodge is an independent advisor on governance and regulation who has worked with organisations including the UK Institute of Directors, the Chartered Governance Institute (the UK professional body for company secretaries), ecoDa (Styreinstituttets European arm) and the International Corporate Governance Network, a global investor organisation.   

From 2004 to 2014, Chris was Director of Corporate Governance at the Financial Reporting Council in the UK where he was responsible for developing and promoting the UK Corporate Governance Code. In that capacity he chaired European Corporate

UK Corporate Governance Code. In that capacity he chaired European Corporate Governance Codes Network which shared information and good practice among the bodies responsible for codes in 28 European countries.  

In this webinar, Chris will start by looking at the different models and relevant corporate governance issues as he observes them.  Further he will share his thoughts on some important questions:  

  • What are the different ways of organizing the Boards work (two-tier boards, use of sub committees, relationship between the Board and management) 

  • What's the background for these different organisational models?
  • What is seen as strengths and weaknesses with the different models, and 

  • Do we see more diversity or convergence in Eiropean Corprrate Governance? 

Following the presentation from Chris, Kristin H. Holth will comment and share her reflections as a long serving Board member with broad experience both in Norwegian and non-Norwegian companies. Towards the end we’ll open for questions and sharing of thoughts from the participants. 

This is a pure web-organized meeting. All registered participants will get a link to the meeting in advance.