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Podcast: Boardroom Governance with Evan Epstein
Episode: Amy Borrus: The Council of Institutional Investors' Voice of Corporate Governance.
Description: Intro.(1:22) - Start of interview(2:23) - Amy's "origin story"(3:41) - Her time as a journalist at Businessweek (US, UK and Japan).(5:02) - Her return to the US in 1990, where her last beat was to cover the SEC and corporate governance (including corporate scandals from the early 2000s and SOX).(6:32) - Her start at the Council of Institutional Investors in 2006.(7:52) - The history of CII, founded in 1985 "at a time of corporate takeovers, imperial CEOs and insulated boards of directors."(9:23) - The three founding principles of CII:Investors benefit when corporate boards provide robust and effective oversight of management (directors are a...