15 March 2017

In addition to over 20 years’ experience leading the Governance & Stewardship Team at Standard Life, Professor Jubb has been very involved in developing best practice in corporate governance and investor stewardship.

The Centre for Accounting and Society (CAS) are delighted to welcome Professor Guy Jubb as a new CAS member. Professor Jubb is the former Global Head of Governance & Stewardship of Standard Life Investments.

Having graduated from the University of Edinburgh as a Bachelor of Commerce in 1973, he qualified as a chartered accountant in 1976 with Whinney Murray & Co, Edinburgh. After qualifying he pursued a career in accounting, merchant banking and corporate finance in London and New York.

Professor Jubb returned to Edinburgh in 1986 to join the Investment Department of Standard Life. Having set up and managed its Private Equity and Smaller Company Teams, he pioneered and, for over 20 years, led its Governance and Stewardship Team until he retired from Standard Life Investments in March 2016.

He has been deeply involved in the development of best practice in corporate governance and investor stewardship in the UK and overseas. Professor Jubb has served on numerous committees including, for many years, the influential Investment Committee of the Association of British Insurers (ABI). He was the inaugural Co-Chair of the GC100 and Investor Group: also, he Co-chaired the Global Auditor Investor Dialogue and the Conference Board’s European Corporate Governance Council.

He was a member of the Standing Advisory Group of the PCAOB, the US audit regulator, from 2014 to 2016. In 2015, he was the recipient of the Institute of Corporate Secretaries and Administrators’ (ICSA) Outstanding Achievement Award.

Professor Jubb is a member of the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS). He chairs its Constitutional Panel and, from July 2017, he will chair its Strategy and Research Advisory Group. He is a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).