UK: women on boards - Prime Minister has not ruled out quotas

The UK's Prime Minister made comments yesterday at the Northern Future Forum in Stockholm regarding board diversity and said that whilst he did not favour quotas the Government had not ruled out their introduction: see here and here. The countries taking part in the meeting - Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and the UK - have contributed to a document which provides some interesting information on board diversity and measures that have been taken: see here (pdf).

OECD updates survey of the governance of state owned enterprises

In 2005 the OECD published a survey of the corporate governance of state owned enterprises in OECD countries: see here. An update has recently been published - see here (pdf) - and this also includes information on four countries which joined the OECD after 2005 (Chile, Estonia, Israel and Slovenia).

Baltic States: guidance on the governance of Government owned enterprises

The codes and principles directory maintained by the European Corporate Governance Institute has been updated to include a copy of the guidance on the governance of Government-owned enterprises published by the Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance: see here (pdf).