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Colin Melvin - Chief Executive, Hermes Equity Ownership Services Ltd |
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 As CEO of Hermes Equity Ownership Services Ltd, Colin Melvin provides advice and assistance to pension funds and other institutional investors in the areas of responsible investment, corporate governance, voting and engagement on assets managed by third party fund managers.
Colin is currently an active member of various industry steering groups and committees including those of the United Nations Project on Principles for Responsible Investment, the Work Foundation Panel of Inquiry into Work and Enterprise, the Global Institutional Governance Network, the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change and the Enhanced Analytics Initiative.
He also chaired the organizing committee for the International
Corporate Governance Network’s 2005 annual conference, which attracted
over 500 attendees from 37 countries. He is currently a member of the
ICGN’s standing committees on executive remuneration, cross-border
voting and shareholder responsibilities. He has also founded or led
various investor groups including the Performance Pay Group and SRI
Forum in the UK and co-drafted guidelines for corporate disclosure on
social, environmental and ethical matters, which have been issued by
the Association of British Insurers. In November 2001, he set up the
Responsible Investors Network, to facilitate the development of
corporate engagement in this area.
Previously, Colin was Corporate Governance Manager and Secretary to the
Ethics Committee at Standard Life Investments and Head of Corporate
Governance at Baillie Gifford. He is also a former member of the
Advisory Board to Aberforth Limited Partnership I, a fund engaged in
relational and active-value investing.
Colin joined Hermes in 2002 and became CEO of Hermes Equity Ownership
Services in 2005. He is an associate member of the Chartered Financial
Analysts Institute and the UK Society of Investment Professionals. He
holds an MA from Aberdeen University and an MPhil from Cambridge
University, both in History, and a Diploma in Investment Analysis from
Stirling University. He is an Associate of the Centre for Corporate
Governance Research of the University of Birmingham.
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