Caroline Oliver

Biography:

Caroline Oliver is an author and international governance consultant. She has served on boards in the U.K. and North America, as well as on advisory groups for the U.K. government and European Commission. She is co-author of Corporate Boards That Create Value: Governing Company Performance from the Boardroom, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 2002.

COMMENTARY: THE STRANGE WORLD OF AUDIT COMMITTEES

by Issue: March / April 2003

Audit committees are a strange invention. They are supposed to provide the independence that their master-the full board-does……