Dr. Roger Barker: Corporate Governance in the U.K. and Europe‪.‬ Boardroom Governance with Evan Epstein

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Roger Barker, the newly appointed Director of Policy and Corporate Governance at the Institute of Directors from the U.K.

Roger starts the role having been Head of Corporate Governance and Course Tutor at the IoD. More recently, he ran his own corporate governance advisory firm and between 2015 and 2020, he served as a UK Member of the European Economic and Social Committee. Roger also serves as an Honorary Associate at the Centre for Ethics and Law at University College London, and a visiting lecturer at Saïd Business School, Oxford, and Cass Business School, London.

Roger is the holder of a doctorate from Oxford University and the author of numerous books and articles on corporate governance and board effectiveness. A former investment banker, Roger spent almost 15 years in a variety of equity research and senior management roles at UBS and Bank Vontobel, both in the UK and Switzerland.

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