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16 Rothschild & Co | Annual Report 2017
Corporate governance
Supervisory Board and specialised committees
9
independent
members
14
Board
members
8
nationalities
The Supervisory Board exercises permanent oversight of the management of the Company, including
in particular the Company’s financial accounting reporting system and its internal control mechanism.
The Supervisory Board relies on three specialised committees: the Audit Committee, the Remuneration
and Nomination Committee and the Risk Committee(1).
Members
Supervisory
Board
Specialised committees
Audit
Committee
Remuneration
and Nomination
Committee
Risk
Committee
Eric de Rothschild – French ■ ■
André Lévy-Lang – French ■ ■ ■ ■
Dr. Daniel Daeniker – Swiss ■ ■
Angelika Gifford – German ■
Sylvain Héfès – French ■ ■ ■ ■
Adam Keswick – British ■
Suet-Fern Lee – Singaporean ■
Arielle Malard de Rothschild – French ■ ■
Lucie Maurel-Aubert – French ■
Carole Piwnica – Belgian ■ ■
Anthony de Rothschild – British ■
Sipko Schat – Dutch ■ ■ ■
Peter Smith – British ■ ■ ■ ■
Luisa Todini – Italian ■ ■
François Henrot – French ■
■ Chairman
■ Vice-Chairman
■ Independent Member
■ Non-Independent Member
■ Non-Voting Member (Censeur)
(1) It was decided during the 2017 financial year that the Strategy Committee would cease to operate in its previous configuration so as to involve directly the
Supervisory Board on strategic matters (for more details, please refer to Section 1.2.8 of the Corporate Governance Section on page 89).