Montagnon leaves ABI for FRC
Peter Montagnon joins FRC to focus on corporate and stewardship governance
The Financial
Reporting Council has poached the
ABI’s
director of investment affairs Peter Montagnon.
Joining in early June, Montagnon will bring his vast experience in
representing investor views on audit and accounting issues as senior investment
advisor.
Montagnon has made regular appearances in Accountancy Age’s
Power
List of influential figures on the profession.
“He will significantly enhance the FRC’s capabilities across all the areas of
its work important to investors, in particular providing valuable perspective
and input into the development of the UK Corporate Governance Code and the new
stewardship code for UK investors,” said chairman Sir Christopher Hogg.
Montagnon joins former colleague Stephen Haddrill at the council. Haddrill is
CEO at the FRC.
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