Interview: Claudia Chapman

After spending nine years in business development roles at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Claudia Chapman led a campaign to raise corporate governance standards in developing markets and bring together finance and HR to address inclusion and diversity in organisations.

In 2015 she joined the corporate governance and stewardship team at the Financial Reporting Council to deliver a report on Corporate culture and the role of boards, which led to revisions of the UK Corporate Governance Code and most recently she led the review and update to the UK Stewardship Code which was published in October 2019. "Stewardship is traditionally thought of as the activities of engagement and voting by shareholders who hold listed equity assets. However, all assets under management are important, so we felt the