Big decisions were kicked up through a series of management committees and, eventually, across the Atlantic to the company's German board of management.

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According to a recent study by McKinsey and Company, companies with a higher than average proportion of women on their management committees deliver the best performance.

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She specializes in working with company management, compensation committees and boards across industries, with particular expertise in the financial services industry.

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Quality of corporate governance including risk committee and audit committee effectiveness and quality of disclosures by management to those board committees.

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The U.S. has taken a different and, I believe, wiser approach by laying down basic principles and asking our compensation committees, senior management and regulators to evaluate their own risks.

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Because many see the committees as complicit with management and playing a role in driving up what is already widely considered to be excessive executive pay.

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To address this issue, the government will push for legislation to give the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) powers to ensure that compensation committees are truly independent of management.

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These internal committees, made up of several high-level executives, mostly from risk-management divisions, have pledged not to reveal a whistle-blower's identity or to punish him for speaking up.

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