CHAIR OF THE BOARD

Ric Marshall is an independent consultant specializing in corporate governance and sustainable investment practices, and a Senior Research Advisor to the Emerging Markets Investors Alliance.

Ric was Executive Director and Senior Corporate Governance Analyst with MSCI ESG Research from 2014-2022. At MSCI Ric helped organize and was Co-Chairman of MSCI’s ESG Editorial Committee, which coordinated the planning and publication of MSCI’s ESG and corporate governance research. He also led the original development of MSCI’s corporate governance scoring model.

Over the past three decades Ric has provided training and support in the use of corporate governance research by both equity and fixed income investors. He has written extensively on the importance of effective corporate governance for boards and investors, and on behalf of securities class action plaintiff investors helped develop guidance for remedial corporate governance reform at a number of major listed corporations.

Ric has been involved with corporate governance research full-time since 1996. Prior to the founding of first The Corporate Library and then GMI Ratings he was Chief Information Officer of Lens Investment Management, and worked closely with that firm’s British partner, Hermes Focus Fund (formerly Hermes Lens). Before this he was active in the fields of computer consulting and computer-based graphic design.

Ric has been a guest speaker at corporate governance and sustainable investment conferences throughout the United States and Europe.

Ric was previously a trustee of Spring Harbor Hospital, a public non-profit psychiatric hospital serving southern Maine, and NAMI Maine, the Maine affiliate of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and over the past four decades has served on the boards of various other non-profit organizations.