Bio:
Paul Lee is a Director at Hermes Equity Ownership Services, with overall
responsibility for EOS’ engagement internationally on public policy and best
practice. Paul is also seconded for part of his time into BTPS Management,
which provides the executive investment oversight of the BT Pension Scheme.Paul is a member of the UK’s Auditing Practices Board and a non-executive director
of Australian engagement firm Regnan. He is a member of the executive committee
(board) of the Quoted Companies Alliance, having been a member of its corporate
governance committee from 2002 to 2008. He is a participant in the Corporate
Reporting Users’ Forum, which tries to influence the development of accounting
standards, as well as a member of the Financial Reporting and Analysis
Committee of the CFA Society of the UK, and also participates in the Audit
Quality Forum and various of its working groups. He sits on the Financial
Reporting Faculty Advisory Group at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of
England and Wales and is a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group of the
IFC’s Global Corporate Governance Forum. Paul is the current chair of the
International Corporate Governance Network’s Shareholder Responsibilities
Committee.Paul joined Hermes in 2000. Having graduated with a first in law from Oxford
University, he spent a decade as a journalist on various specialist legal and
financial journals at Euromoney and the Economist Group, most recently as
managing editor of CFO Europe. He continues to write, including chapters for
various corporate governance and strategy books (most notably the chapter on
Pension Fund Governance in A Practical Guide to Corporate Governance) and
winning the PricewaterhouseCoopers European Shareholder Value Award for his
article Not badly paid but paid badly.
Interests:
e-mail: P.Lee@btps.co.uk
