New Nominating & Governance Working Group Takes on Barriers to Boardroom
Diversity as Push for Diverse Boardrooms Escalates
NEW YORK – May 30, 2018 – A group of top board leaders and other diversity advocates is
challenging the continued barriers to board diversity with a new action plan, released today by
WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD), the largest organization of women board members globally.
The Nominating & Governance Chair (N&G) Roundtable – composed of 18 male and female,
ethnically diverse board chairs, CEOs, and nominating and governance committee chairs –
draws from companies ranging from Aetna and McDonald’s to Alaska Air and Levi Strauss. The
N&G roundtable, which was sponsored by KPMG, met to address the persistent impediments to
board diversity, even as investor groups have pushed for more women and other diverse
directors around the boardroom table.
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