Dr. Roger Barker Email Address

Lead Examiner Finance for Non Financial Directors

The IoD (Institute of Directors) was founded in 1903 and obtained a Royal Charter in 1906. The IoD is a non-party political organisation with upwards of 52,000 members in the United Kingdom and some 2200 in the East Midlands. Membership includes directors from right across the business spectrum - from media to manufacturing, e-business to the public and voluntary sectors. Members include CEOs of large corporations as well as entrepreneurial directors of start-up companies. In addition, the IoD provides an effective voice in the East Midlands through the East Midlands Business Forum, to represent the interests of its members to government and key opinion-formers at the highest levels. These include ministers, constituency MPs, Select Committee members and senior civil servants. IoD policies and views are actively promoted to the national, regional and trade media.

My professional purpose is to be a champion of good corporate governance, ESG and board effectiveness. Over the last decade or so, I have addressed these issues from a variety of perspectives: through public policy advocacy, academic research, business consulting and as a practising board member.