Jonathan Charkham Author

Jonathan Charkham was formerly adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England and is Visiting Professor at City University, London. He has served on many committees on corporate governance abroad and in the UK including the National Health Service (1993/4) and the Cadbury Committee. He is an Adviser to PIRC Ltd, a member of the Committee of the Joint Disciplinary Scheme of the Accounting Profession, and a non-executive director of Great Universal Stores PLC. He is the author of Keeping Good Company: A Study of Corporate Governance in Five Counties (OUP, 1995). Anne Simpson is Managing Director of PIRC, one of the main consultancy bodies associated with corporate governance and institutional shareholder choice. He died in 2006