Non-Executive Directors
The Role of the Non-Executive Director
While it varies across countries and from company to company, the non-executive director’s role is generally to:
- Help facilitate strategy development and constructively monitor delivery.
- Set standards and targets for the management team.
- Scrutinise management performance and monitor reporting.
- Confirm the integrity of internal controls and financial reporting.
- Determine how risk will be evaluated, calibrated and managed.
- Determine senior executive remuneration.
- Appoint and remove senior management.
- Help develop long-term succession plans.
- Monitor and maintain good corporate governance.
- Act in the best interests of all stakeholders, not just shareholders.
– Adapted from “Becoming a Non-Executive Director“, Spencer Stuart, 2014.
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