A diverse workforce is not only good for business, but good for the environment, says research released from the Bank of International Settlements.

Widely known as bankers to the Queen, Coutts bank is working to future-proof its business and ensure a pipeline of diversity through its Boardroom2030 project.

The FRC’s report on Board Diversity and Effectiveness in FTSE 350 Companies tries hard to read the numbers, but John Moulton concludes that diversity will not necessarily improve the bottom line

This know-how guide outlines why appointing an employee director and directors’ use of social media have particular relevance during COVID-19. These suggestions can no longer be described as radical. Companies have shown far greater agility because much more significant changes have been made as a result of COVID-19.

This report provides practical recommendations to improve the provision of information in board packs within financial services.

Based on in-depth interviews with audit committee members in seven CEE countries, this report draws out insights on how audit committees are working, how they are having an impact and how they view the future. It provides insights into some of the common challenges still remaining at a time when the role of audit committees is expanding, largely driven by the introduction of new statutory requirements

In recent years, governments, regulators and corporate governance groups around the world have been taking initiatives to increase representation of women on boards. Debate continues about the effectiveness of measures to address this and other board diversity issues. However, rather than simply reacting, what should boards themselves be doing? This paper considers the principal drivers of diversity to help boards set and assess diversity objectives to promote long-term business success.

The pandemic has pushed back gender parity across the UK FTSE 350 to 2036, with women holding just 22% of all executive committee roles. Just 15 of the top companies have female chief executives. While we’ve made some progress in recent years, what needs to change to reach true equality? ICAEW's Susanna Di Feliciantonio and Jane Berney discuss the issue with a panel of experts.

This webinar covers the role that governance and diversity play in sport. Tom Wilson, Partner, haysmactinyre, talks about the code of sports governance, covering the basics but also discussing what some organisations are doing to improve diversity and governance at all levels. Dal Darroch, Head of Diversity and Inclusion at The FA, discusses the diversity action plan released by The FA - 'In Pursuit of Progress'.

Research by The FRC and the London Business School designed to both understand the implications of changes in board diversity in response to the Davies Review, Hampton-Alexander review and the Parker Review and to look forward, to suggest how they can be accelerated. The report was launched with the press release Diverse boards lead to better corporate culture and performance

Comprehensive review of governance practice in the largest 150 companies in the FTSE rankings, published by Spencer Stuart annually indicating of the state of boardroom health during. The report places particular importance on the theme of diversity – in addition to gender and nationality, the dimensions of age and ethnicity are explored.

Annual benchmarking report by the Gender, Leadership and Inclusion Centre at Cranfield University, which has been published since 1999 and includes details of the number of female non-executive directors on the corporate boards of the UK's top 100 companies

Survey from Deloitte's Board Practices Quarterly, exploring ways in which companies and boards have responded to these recent events involving systemic racism and racial equality, and other management- and board- focused practices pertaining to diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI).