Clear accountability

The Group Company Secretary, Charles Brown, is responsible for CR and ensures that it features regularly on the board agenda. The Board’s first action has been to approve an outline strategy in early 2007.

We have appointed a Head of CR for the Group, reporting to Charles Brown, to direct and co-ordinate efforts across our businesses. Experian has a geographic regional structure; we are also working in emerging markets and have two business units with a particularly global approach. Each of the following businesses has appointed a management champion for CR:

• Experian Americas
• Experian UK
• Experian EMEA
• Experian Asia Pacific
• Experian Emerging Markets
• Experian Decision Analytics
• Experian Business Strategies

These champions will meet on a regular basis, (largely connecting by video conference) to give strategic input to CR. In effect the role of this group is to direct and hold to account the CR activity, but it also has specific responsibilities in regard to the Group’s community giving.

In the larger businesses there is also a CR co-ordinator whose role is to engage with the wide network of relevant professionals representing the appropriate topics, for example Information Security, Community Involvement and Facilities Management professionals in that organisation and provide a means of facilitating discussion and information exchange across the larger regions.

These arrangements are summarised in the diagram:

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