Because governance matters.
Founded in Paris in 2010, Ethics & Boards was born from a simple conviction: governance matters — because governance failures can destroy value overnight and leave lasting consequences for companies, investors and society alike.
Governance is the foundation everything else is built on
It is not a compliance checkbox, nor a one-size-fits-all. In short, we believe that the value destroyed by short-term, non-strategic governance can be better employed.
One ownership model, one governance
Founder-led, family-controlled, state-owned, private or listed companies and institutions each deserve their own strategy and their own governance.
Intelligence, benchmarking, risk patterns
Combined with data, intelligence, benchmarking and risk-pattern detection, that expertise helps corporates, investment funds, stock exchange operators and institutions anticipate risks, improve decision-making, steer transformation and drive long-term financial and extra-financial performance.
No other business line
Governance is all we do: no audit practice, no executive search, no proxy solicitation. Our advice has no agenda but yours.
The world has caught up to that idea
After many governance crises, these are no longer side conversations. They sit at the centre of how capital gets allocated and how trust gets earned. The organisations that thrive won't be the ones playing defence — they will be the ones that treat governance as a strategic asset, not simply a legal obligation.
- Geopolitical riskSovereignty, sanctions and supply-chain risk are now on the board's agenda.
- ClimateTransition plans and climate commitments are voted on, reported and priced — and increasingly written into executive pay.
- Cyber riskGoverned as a technical matter until the day it becomes a continuity, disclosure and reputation matter.
- AIA transformation of the business model, an upheaval of the organisation, ethical and social considerations: the subject has reached the board.
- AccountabilitySay on pay, say on climate, individual director assessment: who answers for what is now asked in public.
Five kinds of client, one reference point
Today, Ethics & Boards is the leading international independent governance intelligence and advisory firm — and the reference point on governance data for the people who set the rules.
Passionate women and men, one conviction
From business, finance and advisory, we are a team diverse in expertise, culture, nationality and age, combining deep governance experience across the corporate, investment and institutional worlds. And we know that governance is the future of performance.
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