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Generally, about Andrew Chambers
‘An internationally renowned corporate governance academic’
(The Times, 15Sep06, p7)
‘A worldwide authority on corporate governance’
(The Times, Editorial, 15Sep06, p19)
Reactions to resigning as an independent director on a matter of principle
‘I am sorry you had to go through what you went through [resigning from a Board] but admire you hugely for doing it. I just hope you never encounter a similar situation again.’
(A consultant with a FTSE100 Group, 20Dec06)
‘Golly! I hope your brave and most necessary action will have excellent results.’
‘May I congratulate you on the action taken by the independent directors. The approach that you and your fellow directors took is an example to Boards everywhere.’
(Another management consultant, 15Sep06)
‘Just wanted to say “Well done, sir” ‘.
(A senior business school academic, 16Sep06)
‘I must say how impressed I was with the stance you and your fellow audit committee members took. The coverage in The Times was positive and showed the value that a strong set of non-execs can bring to a business. Well done!’
(Head of internal audit within a multinational, 02Nov06)
‘I was intrigued to read of your resolute NED stand. Well done..”
(An experienced finance and NED director, 13Oct06)
A leading central bank’s internal auditor about the 2007 international internal auditing summer school:
“What a thoroughly enjoyable week. Professor Chambers is a highly skilled communicator and skillfully managed in a short time to give us all a thorough grounding in auditing from a management, operations and current best practice perspective. A great achievement. It would be an honour to stay in contact with such an eminent professor.”
Comments from three participants at Professor Chambers’ corporate governance courses during 2007:
“Thank you very much for a very interesting course yesterday which will be of great benefit to me in the future.”
.”“Excellent anecdotes and background. Really put flesh on the bones of the topic. Reactive to audience.”
“Trainer knows subject matter and is absolutely up to date.”
‘Generally about Andrew Chambers’
‘Crucially, boards, and particularly non-executive directors need assurance independent of management, which requires a much greater enhancement of the role of internal audit, including, in the words of Professor Andrew Chambers, the creation of a cadre of "super auditors" who can relate on even terms with board members.’
(Hansard, 8th December 2008, cols. 193 – 4: Debate on the Queen’s Speech in the House of Lords)
Professor Andrew Chambers' authoritative compendium on corporate governance’
(Hansard, 16th December 2008, col. 790: Debate on the Banking Bill in the House of Lords (referring to Corporate Governance Handbook, [4th edition, published by Tottel, ISBN 978 1 84766 053 4]).
‘This is excellent news. We know Prof. Chambers and are most impressed with his work.’
From the director of advocacy of an international body when nominated by the UK to join one of their key boards, 20th February 2008
2008
‘Very many thanks for what I believe is a well balanced and incredibly incisive report.’
From a chief audit executive on receipt of Professor Chambers’ external quality assurance review of the internal audit activity.
‘Very good, extremely knowledgeable and an authority on the subject.’
‘Very good speaker, easy to understand who gave real life examples.’
‘Excellent. Obviously very experienced. His personal experience in audit was very helpful.’
Comments from participants following an Internal Auditing training course presented by Professor Chambers
‘I just want to say I really enjoyed the Corporate Governance course immensely and I learnt a lot from it. Also thank you so much for giving us all the material electronically. I think you are an excellent presenter and I only hope I can make it half as interesting for my students next semester. I am ordering 3 copies of your book for the library here.’
From a participant in a corporate governance summer school
‘Many thanks for your valuable time spent today.'
'I found the day very useful and stimulating.'
'A day for me which was well spent. Very many thanks.'
‘ I will take away a number of the tips and attempt to implement them on my own Board.’
Feedback from four participants in a course on effective boards and effective directors
‘Was very good at giving examples and applying theory to reality.’
‘Very learned and experienced’
From participants in a Sarbanes-Oxley course
‘There's no doubt that I've learned more from you than from any teacher I've ever had. Without your influence I would hardly have these successes. You have a way of explaining things that is easy for me to understand. Not everyone has such a gift.’
(December 2009 comment of a 2004 CIA student of Prof Chambers, now senior in ISACA)
‘I sincerely thank you for the quality and seriousness of your presentation. You did add value to our organisation.’
(After a 3-day workshop on governance, risk management and control for the commissioners and directors general of an international body, March 2009)
‘How much I enjoyed yesterday’s meeting and I learned a huge amount in a very short space of time. Your obvious experience and skill at communicating makes learning a lot easier and enjoyable.’
(An audit committee chair following a one-to-one mentoring session, March 2009)
2010
”I must say that the retreat you facilitated was extremely invaluable for the members of the Audit Committee. Thank you for a brilliant workshop.”
An international body’s audit committee member
“Many thanks for a most interesting discussion yesterday morning. I found your session most helpful particularly since I have a NED role. I now know what it means and what I should be doing.”
A newly appointed non-executive director
“While I have not met Andrew in person, I am deeply impressed by his works and contribution to ACCA. Please send my heartfelt thanks and best wishes to Andrew.”
A director of a Hong Kong regulator
“I just wondered if we planned to look for some analysis of the argument from our excellent expert adviser?”
A member of the House of Lords Economic Affairs Select Committee, for whom Andrew acted as Specialist Advisor, 2010-11
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