Acknowledgements I am grateful to a number of people who have generously given me their valuable time to discuss issues of corporate governance. As well as sharing their wisdom and various materials, they sparked ideas and new directions to research. As always, the views expressed in this book are mine as are any errors in under- standing. The list includes: Tony Angel, former managing partner of Linklaters LLP; Janice Caplan of Scala Associates; Roger Corley, former managing direc- tor, Clerical, Medical; Professors Laura Empson and Bob Garratt from the Cass Business School; Tim Goodman from Hermes Equity Ownership Services; Susannah Haan, secretary general of EuropeanIssuers; Steve Liggins, direc- tor of Kencall; Tony Manwaring, chief executive of Tomorrow's Company; Paul Moxey, head of corporate governance and risk management at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants; Richard Sykes, governance risk and compli- ance leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers; Martin Taylor; Tim Ward, chief executive of the Quoted Companies Alliance; John Zucker, director of corporate services for Matthew, Arnold and Baldwin LLP.