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Anne Simpson
Manager Global Corporate Governance Forum - Global Corporate Governance Forum c/o World Bank
Anne Simpson is Manager of the Global Corporate Governance Forum, founded by the World Bank and OECD to provide support to developing and emerging markets on corporate governance reform. The Forum supports awareness raising, exchange of best practice, research and capacity building through its Secretariat and Private Sector Advisory Group, which represents business leaders and international investors with global assets of trillion (www.gcgf.org).
Anne was recruited to the World Bank Group in 1999 as Senior Specialist in corporate governance and worked in a wide range of low and middle income countries, including Brazil, Croatia, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, South Africa and Russia. In addition to her role as an architect of the Global Corporate Governance Forum, her responsibilities included work on the International Financial Architecture through development of the diagnostic template for country corporate governance assessments under the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes.
Prior to joining the Bank, Anne was a Managing Director of the investment advisory firm Pensions & Investment Research Consultants Ltd, which specializes in corporate governance and corporate responsibility services for institutional investors with 0 billion in global assets. She continues to serve as a non-executive director. Before joining PIRC at its foundation in 1986, Anne had worked for the development agency OXFAM, and with a number of research and media projects internationally.
Anne was a member of the taskforce which drafted the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance which have since been adopted as one of the 12 core standards of the International Financial Architecture. She was a member of the Commonwealth Working Committee on corporate governance which developed the Guidelines of Best Business Practice. She is a member of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Corporate Governance in Russia, and a member of the advisory panel for the Southern Africa Institute for Development. Anne is a Director of the AFL-CIO sponsored Centre for Working Capital.
Her publications include \"The Greening of Global Investment: how politics, ethics and the environment are reshaping strategy\" (Economist Publications 1991) and with Jonathan Charkham \"Fair Shares: the future of shareholder power and responsibility\" (Oxford University Press 1999). She is on the editorial board of the journal \"Corporate Governance: an International Review\" (Blackwells).
Anne read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St Hilda\'s College, Oxford and Development Economics as a Slater Fellow at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Commerce and Manufacture in 1995.
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