We have reached the end of the General Shareholders’ Meeting season, and it is foreseeable that certain governance-related topics in our listed companies will resurface with vigor next year. From the conversations we have hosted at the Esade Corporate Governance Center in recent weeks, the following themes emerge, without aiming to exhaust them:

• Diversity and Its Unfinished Treatment at the Board Level: but especially in relation to management teams
• Transparency and the CSRD
• The impact of AI and the profile of the new directors: generalist or specialists.
• The Independence and greater weight of proprietary board members
• Succession plans.
• Retribution and ESG
• Talent management in the strategic debate
• Geopolitics is reinforced in the agenda of the counsils