Emmanuel Faber

Hello, this is Sue Lloyd, Vice Chair of the ISSB, and I'm here with our Chair, Emmanuel Faber.

Today we're recording this podcast following our September board meeting here in Montreal, and Emmanuel and I and Elizabeth Seager from our board, along with some of our senior staff, were in New York on our way here to Montreal for Climate Week in New York, so it feels like a busy week already.

Now, as many of you know, the ISSB didn't have a board meeting in August.

And this might be seen as a telltale signal that while they are a sustainable leader, it might be to boost their image.

Emmanuel Faber at Danone was seen as a pioneer about sustainability, but they never heard about Faber.

I didn't know who the CFO was or who the rest of the top management team was.

And again, this might be a negative signal.

But notice why I find corporate governance so interesting is that you don't even need necessarily to look at more subtle signals such as linguistic tone.

There are some quite observable things that you can look at.

So Dan Faber was both CEO and chair.

which I believe is quite rare in France.