Podcast #67 | Sandra Guerra: "The G in ESG is the Driver of Everything."

In episode #67 of the Boardroom Governance Podcast, Evan Epstein talks with Sandra Guerra, a leading corporate governance expert from Brazil.

Her experience includes acting on the boards of listed, closed, family-controlled and state-controlled companies as well as of non-profit organizations both in Brazil and abroad.

She was one of the founding members of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC), where for four years, from 2012 to 2016, she was the chair of the board. In 2021, her book “The Black Box of Governance” was published by Routledge.

In this podcast, Sandra and Evan talk about:

• The evolution of corporate governance in Brazil in the last 25 years, with the creation of IBGC (1995), Novo Mercado (2000), and the Brazilian corporate governance code (2016).

• Governance of state-owned enterprises and the Lava Jato (Car Wash) investigation, i.e. the Petrobras case.

• Crisis resilient boards, based on her experience as a director in the Brazilian global mining giant Vale after the catastrophic collapse of a dam in 2019.

• The state of ESG in Brazil.

• The future of corporate governance, including the new forms of startup and scaleup governance.

You can listen to the episode directly at https://boardroom-governance.com/episodes/sandra-guerra (where you can find the show notes), or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts such as in: Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon or Stitcher.

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