Bill Birch
Former Minister of Finance of New Zealand
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Jun 24, 2026
Governance Bites #155: What endures when politics, technology, & fashion change, with Sir Bill Birch
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Mark BanicevichHOST
Have you noticed any changes in the boardrooms over your career in terms of, for example, the people sitting around the table? Have you noticed

William BirchGUEST
any changes? I think one of the good changes is that there's now many more women involved on boards and They were when I first became a director.

William BirchGUEST
They have their own views about some of these things that might differ from a male board or an all male board.

William BirchGUEST
I mean, there's now more consciousness in the private sector about investing in companies that are not producing products that are universally acceptable.
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Mark BanicevichHOST
If you were advising someone who was about to chair a board for the first time, and by advising I just mean sitting down, you know, then packing your brains to say, how can I do this job well? If we make the assumption that, as you've said at the start, the values are there, they're a good person, what enduring leadership habits would you encourage your director to develop?