Sandra Guerra: "The G in ESG is the Driver of Everything."

Welcome to the Boardroom Governance Podcast. I’m your host, Evan Epstein. In this episode, I talk with Sandra Guerra, a leading corporate governance expert from Brazil. Her experience includes acting on the boards of listed, closed, family-controlled and state-controlled companies as well as of non-profit organizations both in Brazil and abroad. She was one of the founding members of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC), where for four years, from 2012 to 2016, she was the chair of the board. In 2021, her book “The Black Box of Governance” was published by Routledge. In this podcast, we talk about how corporate governance has evolved in Brazil with the creation of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC) in 1995, Novo Mercado (New Market) in 2000 and the Brazilian Corporate Governance Code in 2016. We also address “Crisis resilient boards: lessons from Vale” based on her experience as one of two independent directors of the Brazilian global mining giant that suffered a devastating collapse of a dam in 2019 killing 270 people. More recently, the company has been the target of the SEC’s ESG taskforce on greenwashing securities fraud claims. We finally discuss the future of corporate governance including startup and scaleup governance. If you like this show, please consider subscribing, leaving a review or sharing this podcast on social media. You can find all the show notes on the website boardroom-governance.com and please feel free to subscribe to the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at evanepstein.substack.com