PERSONNEL

Stephen M. Davis, Ph.D. is Project Director and Fellow at the Yale School of Management’s Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, a global think tank on capital markets. He is responsible for multiple programs addressing board and fund governance.

Davis is also president of Davis Global Advisors, Inc., which consults to institutional investors, professional associations, stock exchanges, governmental bodies and international organizations. Davis founded and edits the weekly Global Proxy Watch newsletter. A thought leader, Dr. Davis’s book (with Jon Lukomnik and David Pitt-Watson) The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda (Harvard Business School Press, 2006) was named in the Wall Street Journal as one of the four “most influential books” on corporate governance, and by the Financial Times and Australian Financial Review as one of the best business books of 2006. Booz Allen’s Strategy and Business named it a 2007 book of the year.

Davis is a board member of EOS, the shareowner engagement arm of Hermes Pensions Management, the UK’s largest retirement fund; He serves on the International Investment Advisory Board of NYSE Euronext; he is on former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Policy Network working group on economic reform; he is Senior Advisor at Public Insight LP; and an advisory board member of The Sustainable Governance Forum on Climate Change and of The Corporate Library. Davis co-chaired The Conference Board’s Working Group on Hedge Funds. He has written regular opinion columns for the Financial Times and Compliance Week and is a frequent media commentator on global corporate governance. He has testified at US congressional hearings. Davis was named in 2007 to the Directorship 100, a list of the most influential individuals in corporate governance.

In 1988 Davis pioneered the field of international corporate governance when he founded the global unit at the IRRC, in Washington, DC. His Shareholder Rights Abroad: A Handbook for the Global Investor (1989) was the first study comparing corporate governance practices in top markets. He was a founding partner in GovernanceMetrics International and g3, a partnership working with the World Bank Group. Davis co-founded and served as governor of the International Corporate Governance Network, which represents the interests of institutional shareowners with US$15 trillion in assets around the world. Dr. Davis was a member of the steering group which produced the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.

Dr. Davis earned his doctorate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and completed undergraduate studies at Tufts and the London School of Economics. Other books include Apartheid’s Rebels: Inside South Africa’s Hidden War (Yale University Press, 1987), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

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