Prof. Christine Mallin Birmingham Business School, UK

Chris Mallin is Professor of Corporate Governance and Finance, and the Founder and Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance Research, at Birmingham Business School at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has served as the Rapporteur on the Independent Inquiry established by the NAPF on 'UK Vote Execution', as... read morea member of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) and as a member of the UK's Shareholder Voting Working Group. She is a member of the Canada-Russia Corporate Governance Program Advisory Council; an Advisory Group Member of the Japan Corporate Governance Research Institute; a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Centre for Research in Public & Private Governance, Universidad del Cema, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the New Zealand Governance Centre. She was a Director (2000-2006), and Chair of the Audit and Risk Management Committee (2004-2006), of the Aston Reinvestment Trust (chaired by Sir Adrian Cadbury) which was launched in 1997 as a pioneer of social investment and has become the leading local community finance initiative in the UK. She was the editor Corporate Governance: An International Review from 2000-2007 and of the several books published by Edward Elgar: Handbook on International Corporate Governance; International Corporate Governance: A Case Study Approach; and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Case Study Approach. The third edition of her book Corporate Governance was published by Oxford University Press in 2009.