Board Governance

Netherlands Board Index 2006

January 2007

The Netherlands Board Index shows that Dutch public companies have again stepped up their efforts for complying with better corporate governance. The majority of major Dutch public companies have made a genuine effort to adopt best practices in corporate governance.

Major trends revealed include:

  • Directors are meeting significantly more often
  • There is more financial expertise on audit committees
  • Average tenure of non-executive directors has decreased significantly
  • More companies have a non-executive financial expert
  • Cash remuneration for non-executive directors has increased
  • The number of women on boards is slowly increasing
  • Supervisory boards (two-tier boards) are no longer decreasing in size
  • The number of one-tier boards is unchanged

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