The Cadbury Committee
The Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance was composed of:
- Sir Adrian Cadbury (1929-)
- Sir George Adrian Hayhurst Cadbury has been a preeminent figure in the field of Corporate Governance since his Chairmanship of the UK Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance. The Report and Code of Best Practice published by this committee in December 1992 have ever since been known as the Cadbury Report and the Cadbury Code.
Sir Adrian was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, and represented Great Britain in the coxless fours rowing at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. He served as Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of Cadbury Schweppes from 1969 to 1974, and thereafter as Chairman until 1989. He has also been a Director of IBM UK, chaired the CBI's Economic and Financial Policy Committee, and was a one of the Directors of the Bank Of England from 1970 to 1994.
In 2001 he was a recipient of one of the International Corporate Governance Network's inaugural International Corporate Governance Awards. - Ian Butler
- CBI Council member, and former Chairman, CBI Companies Committee
- Jim Butler
- Senior Partner, KPMG Peat Marwick
- Jonathan Charkham
- Adviser to the Governor, Bank of England
- Hugh Collum
- Chairman of the Hundred Group of Finance Directors and Finance Director at SmithKline Beecham
- Sir Ron Dearing
- Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council
- Andrew Likierman
- Professor of Accounting and Financial Control, London Business School
- Nigel MacDonald
- Vice President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Scotland
- Mike Sandland
- Chairman of the Institutional Shareholders Committee
- Mark Sheldon
- Vice-President of the Law Society
- Sir Andrew Hugh Smith
- President of the London Stock Exchange
- Sir Dermot de Trafford
- Chairman of the Institute of Directors
- Adviser: Sir Christopher Hogg
- Chairman, Reuters Holdings
- Secretary: Nigel Peace, DTI
