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Mervyn Davies

July 2016

  • Minister for women, Nicky Morgan

    Numbers of women in UK boardrooms still low

    Equalities minister Nicky Morgan says high ranks still male dominated as report finds only 25% of FTSE 100 directors are female

March 2016

  • Kipper Williams cartoon on Mark Carney’s ‘forward guidance’

    QE, inflation and the BoE's unreliable boyfriend: seven years of record low rates

    We look back over seven years of ultra-loose monetary policy

October 2015

  • FTSE 100 companies have achieved their target of having 25% women on their boards, according to Lord Davies’ gender equality report.

    A third of boardroom positions should be held by women, UK firms told

    Gender equality report by Lord Mervyn Davies will set new target for FTSE 100 firms of 33% female board members by 2020

July 2015

  • Tessa Jowell photographed in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. Photo by Linda Nylind. 2/7/2015.

    London mayoral hopeful ​Tessa Jowell criticised for taking role at donor's firm

    Transparency group says it is inappropriate for former MP to be appointed to senior position at company that is part of group chaired by Mervyn Davies

May 2015

  • Mervyn Davies

    Mervyn Davies joins Russian oil firm involved in dispute over North sea fields

    Former trade minister becomes deputy chairman of LetterOne Group, whose licence could be revoked by UK as part of possible sanctions on Russian owners

February 2015

  • Vince Cable

    Cable hints at mandatory EU quotas for female executives

    Target of 25% women in boardrooms ‘within sight’, but quotas could be enforced if it is not met, business secretary warns

January 2014

  • Business secretary Vince Cable

    Vince Cable calls on leading companies to appoint more women as directors

    Business secretary urges 350 chairmen to add one female director in 2014 and set targets for boardroom representation

January 2013

  • Helena Morrissey

    Women inch towards equality in the boardroom

    Since the Davies report set its 25% target, there has been some painful, but measurable, progress

November 2011

  • Lord Davies

    Major UK pension fund may vote against all-male boardrooms

    Legal & General Investment Management says it will consider opposing chairmen of nominations committees if they do not encourage diversity

August 2011

  • A woman sits alone in a boardroom

    Surge in appointments of female board members shows companies heeding compulsory quota threat

    Lord Davies's review of boardroom equality has been a catalyst for change but more executive appointments are called for

February 2011

  • CBI president Helen Alexander

    Lord Davies tells big firms to double number of women directors

    Lord Davies review of women in boardrooms threatens sanctions unless British firms improve equality record

  • Woman in Conference Room, sitting. Image shot 2006. Exact date unknown.

    UK lags behind Nordic nations in equality for female executives

    Women comprise only 12% of British board directors, compared with 40% in Norway
  • Various

    Review threatens companies with public disclosure over number of women interviewed for board roles

    Big firms face being forced to reveal how many women they have interviewed for senior jobs

December 2010

  • Let's put women first in 2011

    Mervyn Davies
  • Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts

    Quotas not the way to get more women in the boardroom, says Mervyn Davies

September 2010

  • Trade minister post

    HSBC chairman Stephen Green named trade minister

    After four-month search, David Cameron selects senior banker to promote UK industry abroad

June 2010

  • What to do with a degree in …
    What can you do with a degree in economics?

    Your ability to analyse complex data is just one reason why you qualify for high earning roles

May 2010

  • Mervyn Davies

    Mervyn Davies sounded out for Lloyds role

    Lloyds forced to support chief executive Eric Daniels after revelation that bank's chairman had sounded out senior City figures about replacing him

April 2010

  • Stuart Rose

    Viewpoint column
    If a man called Dave should call about some Goats …

    Julia Finch
    If Cameron becomes PM he will want to appoint his own Goats

February 2010

  • Gordon Brown

    Gordon Brown: UK still good investment opportunity

    PM tells overseas business leaders they can help Britain recover from recession and sets out an 'investors' charter' with the promise of a skilled UK workforce for foreign firms who invest here
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