Stephen Bloomfield was a member and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators for more than twenty-five years. After a thirty-year career in both public and private sectors, he has also lectured and led corporate governance teaching at institutions such as Ashcroft International Business School, Kingston University and London South Bank University, UK.

"...Provides a platform that moves beyond unthinking compliance, with particular reference to the UK and Europe, concludes with a prescient global review [and] deserves the widest possible readership in the domain of corporate business."Gabriel Flynn, Dublin City University, Ireland

• 1. What is Corporate Governance? 2. Conceptual Problems in Corporate Governance 3. A Brief History of Corporate Governance 4. The Development of Corporate Governance Standards 5. Contemporary Corporate Governance in the UK 7. Contemporary Corporate Governance Around the World 8. The Future of Corporate Governance Appendix: An Annotated List of Governance Scandals