You can access BoardEx via WRDS, where you an find educational background, prior employment, and connections of directors and executives. You can also analyse the proportion of politically connected directors, using CEO-level controls such as age, gender, and experience.
Eikon provides ESG data that is extracted and standardised from publicly available sources (e.g. annual reports, NGO websites and Corporate Social Responsibility reports).
Used to be called GMI (Governance Metrics International) an independent firm involved in assessments of corporate governance world wide. It is now acquired by MSCI. Some individual company data can be reviewed.
Global organisation of over 500 leaders in corporate governance based in 50 countries with a mission to raise standards of corporate governance worldwide.
Network-based organization that produces a comprehensive sustainability reporting framework that is widely used around the world. GRI’s core goals include the mainstreaming of disclosure on environmental, social and governance performance.
Launched in 1999, the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes are the first global indexes tracking the financial performance of the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide. N.B. Most DJSI data is only available through subscription (the University does not subscribe).
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